Re: i810 on asus
Alvin,
Ta much. It worked in the end. I compiled the experimental Agp driver as per
your suggestion and it works with potato's SVGA server.
tomas
>
> hi tomas
>
> easiest way to get X11 working on the asus mboard
> with onboard svga ( i assume )
>
> http://www.Linux-1U.net/MotherBoard/Intel.X11.Patches/
> ( go to the original intel site for the files too )
>
> get the agp driver
> I810Gtt-0.2-4.src.rpm
>
> get the X server
> XFCom_i810-1.2-3.i386.rpm
>
>
http://www.Linux-1U.net/MotherBoard/Intel.X11.Patches/Intel.X11.patch.debian
.txt
>
> if all that works... it should be about 5 min to get X11 working...
> - than you might also have to install gnome/kde if you like those
> window managers
>
>
> c ya
> alvin
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, tomas kral wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have i810 chipset on an asus m-board.
> > After having read almost all available read about i810 vs XF86_SVGA, I
am stuck not able to get past the following..
> >
> > XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System
> > ..
> > (--) SVGA: PCI: Intel Unknown chipset (0x7121) rev 3, Memory @
0xe4000000, 0xe3800000
> > (--) SVGA: error doing ioctl(GARTIOCINFO): Invalid argument
> > Fatal server error:
> > Aborting
> >
> > while agpgart.o module gets loaded while it says..
> > Oct 18 16:41:46 debie kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff
Hartmann
> > Oct 18 16:41:46 debie kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for
agp memory: 202M
> > Oct 18 16:41:46 debie kernel: agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 Chipset.
> > Oct 18 16:41:46 debie kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000
> >
> > I am on 2.2.19pre17 as packaged in potato dist.
> >
> > Your help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > t.kral@perfect-system.cz
> > www.perfect-system.cz
> >
>
>
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