I spent a lot of time digging through the archives (Note: Archives are searchable from Google; go to the Advanced Search section and restrict your search to domain "XFree86.Org". Instructions for this are on the page liked via "Support, Documentation and Resources" off the main XFree86 page.) 'cause I have a Dell Inspiron with an i830 chip and I couldn't get it to work. I found a good page describing this situation put up by someone I believe in Australia (sorry - I can't find the link right now) who has analyzed this to death. Basically... ... the problem appears to be that the laptop manufacturers apparently reserve 1MB of memory for "legacy" mode in these chips. Intel recommends going into the BIOS and changing it to 8MB. Dell doesn't provide a way to do this (well, I haven't found a way and the Dell support response is "Huh?") and my guess is Sony probably doesn't either. Since the i810 driver (which is used for the i830 chip) apparenlyt uses the legacy mode, you can't run a resolution that requires more than 1MB of memory. Pretty much that limits you to 640x480 256 color and 1024x768 16 color. :-( Hopefully someone who knows the i810 driver is working the problem. I _REALLY_ hate having to use M$ Windoze on my laptop. Until then though... Thanks, Mike On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Douglas du Boulay was heard whispering through the Net: ddb>Hello, I'm having a very difficult time trying to ddb>get an Xserver running on the intel i830MG chipset on the ddb>Sony Vaio PCG-R505X/PD laptop ddb> ddb>I believe it is a very very recent Japanese model. ddb>It came with Japanese Windows XP but I'm trying to ddb>set up debian linux (coz I can't read Kanji). ddb> ddb>Anyway, I downloaded the file X420src-1.tgz ddb>xfree 4.2.0 (Jan 17th?) tarball number 1 and merrily ddb>compiled and installed to /usr/local/X11R6 ddb>(so as not to confuse my existing debian 4.1.xx xfree86 ) ddb> ddb>I also built and installed the i830.o kernel module ddb>and have it installed in a running 2.4.18 linux kernel. ddb> ddb>Sadly running startx or xf86cfg doesn't work. ddb>Briefly I get some green trash on the screen followed shortly ddb>by a grey hash wallpaper in a centred rectangle about 1/2 ddb>the size of the actual laptop screen. Thereafter ddb>the process exits. ddb> ddb>I enclose /var/log/XFree86.0.log (kdm) and XFree86.8.log ddb>below. Hope someone can figure whats going wrong ddb>thanks ddb>Doug ddb> ddb>P.S. Its possible there are some kernel issues involved ddb>also because the booting kernel has problems assigning ddb>IRQs to some slots on the PCI bus, apparently ... ddb> ddb> _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
