Re: agpgart, XFCom_810 and the Dell OctiPlex
Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2000 06:15 schrieb mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu:
> Well, despite the risk of being screamed at from the prestigious:
>
> Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior
>
> at Princeton, I'd still like to gather courage and ask a question.
>
> I helped a colleague this afternoon install 2.2r2 on his new Dell
> Optiplex GX110. The installation went very smoothly indeed. I hadn't
> done an install from scratch with potato, and I was really impressed.
>
> The problem, though, is getting X working. This is a known issue, I
> think. These machines seem to have Intel i810 video cards, which
> are not successfully autodetected by anXious.
>
> I've looked around on the web and found some information, but nothing
> specific to Debian. If I understand correctly, these cards need a
> kernel module called `agpgart' and they need the SVGA server.
>
> But I also gather that Intel has released their own version of
> agpgart.o as well as their own X server for the i810 chipset
> (XFCom_810). The combination of these two is said to yield better
> performance, and the instructions on the Intel web-site seem fairly
> clear.
>
> But I thought I should check here before plunging in, to see if
> anybody has experience doing this on a Debian system, or if any of you
> unfailingly kind and knowledgeable people had any advice or warnings
> to offer.
I'm using the agpgart package and the X-Server from Intels website for our
X-terminals. This combinations works pretty good. The standard svga server is
definitively slower and not that stable.
-Cajus
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