Xfree and a HP Omnibook XE3

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On 28 Feb 2002, Dale Kosan wrote:

>Date: 28 Feb 2002 16:04:32 -0500
>From: Dale Kosan <dale@kitty.org>
>To: xfree86-list@redhat.com
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>List-Id: Red Hat XFree86 list <xfree86-list.redhat.com>
>Subject: Xfree and a HP Omnibook XE3
>
>   I am trying to get X working on a Redhat 7.2 laptop and am having no
>luck. The video card is a Intel 830MG graphics card. I can not find any
>server for the above and was wondering if anyone has it working or knows
>a way to get it to work.I followed the instructions from the intel
>website when we try and start X, KDE starts to initialize and we  get
>fatal server error. In the log it says "bad v_bios checksum" Anyone
>have any suggestions?

i830 is not supported by XFree86 4.1.0.  You need 4.2.0 which is 
in rawhide, as well as the rawhide kernel.  My suggestion is to 
wait a week for rawhide to settle first.


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