On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>> I am having a major problem getting Rehat 6.2 and TurboLinux 6.0 to run
>> X-Windows on a Dell OptiPlex GX110 which is using Intel's 810 chip set
>> for SVGA display.
>
> There's a special driver needed for the 810 motherboard.
This used to be the case, but is no longer true. AGP GART support appeared
around kernel 2.2.12, IIRC, and the i810 chipset was added in XFree 3.3.6.
> Do yourself a favor, get a separate video card with more memory.
This is still a good recommendation. The i810 chipset's graphics engine
isn't exactly a high performance product, and the shared memory design is a
burden for any power user.
> The 810 shares phy. mem. with memory, and I believe you're restricted to
> 1MB of video ram.
It can use up to 4 MB, IIRC, but you may have to reserve it at boot by using
the "mem=" directive to tell the kernel to use less memory then is present in
the system. As you say, a pain.
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