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Re: i810 video and Debian 3.0





Evan Burkitt wrote:
At 09:09 2002.09.08 +0100, Peter Whysall wrote:

On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 07:44, Evan Burkitt wrote:
> I recently installed version 3.0 of Debian on a Dell GX110, which has a
> built-in video adaptor based on the Intel i810 controller. I set up Xfree86 > during installation from Debian packages, but it fails to start due to a > missing agpgart module. I looked at the source distributions for XFree86 > and the agpgart module doesn't appear to be in the 4.x distribution, and
> the file in the 3.x distribution doesn't support the v2.4 Linux kernel.
>
> If I have to, I can install a video card in a PCI slot and override the
> built-in hardware, but I'd prefer not to spend the money or disturb the
> Win2K installation that the computer dual-boots. Any recommendations on how
> I can get X to work with my existing hardware?

The missing module is a kernel module - not an XFree86 one.

Here's the relevant bits from my config (BX440 board):

CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y
# CONFIG_AGP_I810 is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_AMD is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_ALI is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS is not set
CONFIG_DRM=y

As you can see, there's a specific option for i810 AGP. It can be
compiled into the kernel, or as a module.

You can find these options in the "Character Devices" section, if you
use menuconfig or xconfig.

Hope this helps.


I think it will, once I find the config you're referencing. Also, I don't appear to have either menuconfig or xconfig on my installation. All I have for X configuration is /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config and dpkg-reconfigure run with 'xserver-xfree86' on the command line. I also don't have the agpgart module present; modprobe agpgart reports that it can't find it.

If you could point me toward the config file I'll see what it says.

Before we do that - are you using a regular Debian kernel package?

I.e., did you install it by "apt-get install kernel-image<foo>" ?

Regards

Peter.



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