Hello,
I've been experiencing similar problems with XFree86 and the
Intel i845 on-board video as reported by Todd Anderson in
<URL: http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/cooker/2002-09/msg00302.php >
and Steve Hersey in
<URL: http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/cooker/2002-09/msg00253.php >
(I've been experiencing similar problems with Mandrake's bug reporting
system as well :-)
Basically, the server would only start in 640x480 at 16bpp,
or (up to) 1024x768 at 8bpp, and in any mode there were really
nasty display glitches.
Manuel Chakravarty has posted a fix which seems to work:
<URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html#xfree86 >
Specifically, this patch:
<URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/i830_driver-1mb-stolen-hack.patch >
The patch applied cleanly against the sources in
XFree86-4.2.0-26mdk.src.rpm, and after recompiling and
reinstalling /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o
my video problems have gone away.
(Manuel's web page also includes a couple of kernel module
patches for DRI support. I haven't applied those; so
far things are working OK without them.)
--Joe English
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