Re: Intel I845 X config probs
I am working with some people in India that have several machines which
all use the same Intel video card. We are having what appears to be is
the same problem. Here is what I have found out so far:
1) The VESA frame buffer driver works with the 845 series cards if you
can get the BIOS set right. There are no 845 frame buffer drivers (at
least that I have been able to find).
2) Intel does provide XFree drivers which have been merged into the 2.4
kernel. These should work. Unfortunately we need FB and not X.
3) The BIOS settings are critical to getting this card working. If the
BIOS producer provides you with the means to adjust the memory usage (or
at least sets it high enough to be usuable) then it should work. I have
access to an IBM settop box which provides BIOS settings and it works. I
also have access to a Compaq box which uses then same video card but it
does not provide any BIOS settings (or at least none that I have been
able to find) and it does not work :-(.
Hopefully, the people in India have several machines, one works and the
rest do not. Since I do not have access to the machines I am hoping that
they can find the BIOS setting and fix it. It is proving to be a
challenge because of the language issues and their experience level.
If they find the BIOS setting and are able to get it working I will let
you know what they found out. Can you do me a favor and let me know if
you figure it out before they do. Thanks.
On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 00:58, Harshu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having a big time problem in configuring X for i845g chipset of
> dell dimension 2350 that I bought recently. I have downloaded the
> drivers on the intel site, made changes in the XF86Config-4and
> recompiled the kernel to support i845/810 chipset and tried the net.
> Alas I have not been able to get it to work
>
> Another issue is that how to limit the memory used by the video card. I
> didn't find the relevant option in the bios. I was told by the customer
> service ppl at dell that I have 4mb card and remaining memory is drawn
> from the ram. How much do i specify during a configuration
>
>
> I hope someone would give me a clue or pointers to docs to get it
> working.
>
> I have attached the relevant files below.
>
> thank you
> regards
> harshu
>
> clipped output of /var/log/XFree86.0.log
>
> (II) LoadModule: "i810"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o
> (II) Module i810: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.1.0
> Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
> ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5
> (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
> (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
> Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
> ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.3
> (II) I810: Driver for Intel i810 chipset: i810, i810-dc100, i810e,
> i815,
> i830M
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
> (EE) No devices detected.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> --------------
>
> ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
> # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by
> dexconf, the
> # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database.
> #
> # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
> # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
> #
> # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make
> changes
> # before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after the
> # "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below.
> #
> # To change things within the debconf section, run the command:
> # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> # as root. Also see "How do I add custom sections to a
> dexconf-generated
> # XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in
> /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz.
>
> Section "Files"
> FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
> # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "GLcore"
> Load "bitmap"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "ddc"
> Load "dri"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "glx"
> Load "int10"
> Load "record"
> Load "speedo"
> Load "type1"
> Load "vbe"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver "keyboard"
> Option "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> Option "XkbVariant" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Generic Video Card"
> Driver "i810"
> BusID "PCI:00:02:0"
> VideoRam 4096
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Generic Monitor"
> HorizSync 30-100
> VertRefresh 50-160
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "Generic Video Card"
> Monitor "Generic Monitor"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 1
> Modes "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 4
> Modes "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 15
> Modes "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen "Default Screen"
> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
> ### END DEBCONF SECTION
>
> dmesg
> -----
>
> Starting kswapd
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> ICH4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
> PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions
> ICH4: BIOS setup was incomplete.
> ICH4: chipset revision 2
> ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: WDC WD300BB-75DEA0, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: HL-DT-ST CD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4480B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> blk: queue c026b8c4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> hda: setmax LBA 58633344, native 58593750
> hda: 58593750 sectors (30000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3647/255/63,
> UDMA(100)
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3 hda4
> Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
> agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 320M
> agpgart: Detected an Intel 845G Chipset.
> agpgart: detected 892K stolen memory.
> agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000
>
>
>
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