In a message dated: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:07:52 EDT
Benjamin Scott said:
>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.
Hmmm, wasn't aware of that. Still a pain though, and reason enough to avoid
using the 810 whenever possible (of course we have about 20 of these machines
laying around now, but we seldom have a graphics head on them :)
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