Dear All, I have been trying to install the XFree X windows environment unfortunately without success. The Redhat Kernel 2.4.20-8 (no Problem with this bit as far as I can see) Boot option for the Kernel: video=vga16:off (No problem with this option as far as I can see) Hardware: Dell Inspiron 2600 (using the Intel 82830M video card). I understand that it uses the i810 driver. I also understand that there are loads of issues with the bios (I have installed version A10 the latest and not the greatest) and the video card. I seem to understand that the videocard uses part of the memory from the system and that this potentially creates problems. It seems to recognize and load the correct driver i810, (II) Bus 3: bridge is at (2:4:0), (2,3,6), BCTRL: 0x0580 (VGA_EN is cleared) (--) PCI:*(0:2:0) Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] rev 4, Mem @ 0xe8000000/27, 0xe0000000/19 (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] rev 0, Mem @ 0xf0000000/27, 0xe0080000/19 I assume that the i810 driver that got loaded like: (II) LoaModule: "i810" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o (II) Module i810: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.3.0 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 Is for the intel 810 I can see that with the memory things aren't going all OK below, but it seems only a warning. WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f11 not supported. (II) I810(0): Before: SWF1 is 0x00000008 (II) I810(0): After: SWF1 is 0x00000008 (II) Loading sub module "int10" (II) LoadModule: "int10" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) I810(0): initializing int10 (WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum I can see that the line (II) I810(0): Before: SWF1 is 0x00000008 (II) I810(0): After: SWF1 is 0x00000008 are very similar to the output of a program I have downloaded i830-16bit.c. One can only assume that the downloaded program and the standard program perform the same operation. Further on in the file I can see that it correctly found my internal screen on pipe-a. (II) I810(0): Display Info: LFP (local flat panel): attached: TRUE, present: TRUE, size: (1024,768) whether this screen is now usable using the intel driver or the vesa driver is not clear to me, but at least it located the screen. The last thing I detected is that the system now have determined that it has a screen, but not with a usable configuration. I have also tried the X environment with the vesa drivers (configuration information not enclosed), but with no success either. Any idea how I should proceed (is this machine certified to run the x-windows environment under linux. Should I proceed with the vesa drivers. Rien Otterman
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