On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Greg Julius wrote:
> I have been having a ton of problems with my RH 8.0 associated with my i845
> chipset on my motherboard.
>
I just bought two computers that use that chipset. I'm running FreeBSD
4.7, and w/XFree86 4.2.99.3, and it works flawlessly.
>
> I have put in the 4.2.20 kernel - just fine now. I installed the XFree86
> 4.2.99.3 binaries and things stopped.
>
Are you loading the AGP GART driver? I'm not very familiar with Linux,
but your symptoms sound like those that I experienced in FreeBSD before
I figured out that I had to load the AGP GART driver into my kernel at
boot-time.
> I just did a XFree86 -configure and put the resulting configuration file in
> /etc/X11/XF86Config. I restarted the system. I did a startx. Nothing but
> blank screen.
I always add the monitor's VertRefresh & HorizSync settings into
XF86Config before doing the startx... If I don't do this, I seem to have a
lot of problems :)
> Edited the config file and replaced the i810 driver with
> vesa. restarted the system again. I did a startx. This time I got
> something. I'm not sure what it was, but it wasn't my pretty interface
> before the binary install. It a "desktop" for lack of a better term. It
> had a clock (hard to read, but analog format). It had two terminal windows
> with dark backgrounds and one terminal window with a light
> background. exiting the light one exits everything.
That sounds like the default setup of XFree86. It starts TWM, XClock,
XTerms, etc. Make sure you create a file called ~/.xinitrc and
it should only need to be one line:
exec gnome-session
>
> 1) How do I get my pretty interface back (GNOME)? I tried switchdesk
> GNOME, but I got the same stuff.
By creating the ~/.xinitrc
>
> 2) Must I always reboot after I stop a startx? If I don't I just get a
> blank screen.
I had all sorts of problems with the vesa driver on this chipset. Once
I got the i810 driver to work (and the only trick to that was loading
the AGP GART kernel module at boot) these problems disappeared.
Also, make sure that DRI and GLX (tho, I don't know if these work with
vesa) are loading in your config. Also, I think there's some video
memory allocation issues if you're using vesa... There's some info on
that here:
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel845g/linux.htm
Good Luck!
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