On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 16:50, mike@jurney.org wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 cbice@megavolt.com wrote: > > > Ok, Im about ready to blow up this new Dell PC. It has an Intel® 82845G > > Extreme Graphics on-board Video Card with 64MB of RAM. I cannot for the > > life of me, get the XWindow server in RH8.0 to work with it. The monitor > > im using is a Gateway FPD1520 15" Flat Panel. It works wonderfully in > > Windoze, but a no go in linux. This is a brand new system from Dell. Any > > help would be greatly appreciated. > > The VESA driver will give you very generic video support with this > chipset. RedHat XF86 rpms currently do _not_ support it; You have to > either try building XFree86 from current cvs or wait for a few months. I > hit this problem last week with a new development box. My wife had the same problem with her new Dell. We wound up putting a PCI Radeon 7500 in the extra PCI slot. Things worked fine then, aside from redhat-config-xfree86 getting very confused at having two video cards (partly because the Dell bios doesn't let you completely disable the onboard video card). I believe that the latest XFree86 RPMs in Rawhide provide support for these cards. I think Mike Harris told me that they did, but I haven't tried it out since the Radeon is working fine in my wife's machine. Maybe Mike has more information...Mike? Cheers, Brent -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
