intel 845g

[Chris Kassopulo]

Hi Kurt,

Just to be clear, I am trying to get Intel's driver working
better than it does.  It is useable now, but not right.  At
some point I'll try to figure out why I couldn't get the
standard i810 driver to work at all.

Intel's driver is i830.  The source package also contains i810,
agpgart, gamma and other routines that are part of the X i810
driver.  I don't know if they are different but I assume they
are.

Relative parts of my etc/XF86Config:

# File generated by xf86config.

Section "Module"
    Load        "dbe"
    SubSection  "extmod"
      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"
    EndSubSection
    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"
    Load        "glx"
#    Load        "dri"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "My Monitor"
    HorizSync   30-70
    VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Intel 810"  # install instructions
    Driver      "i810"       # say to use i810 not i830
    VideoRam    65536
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "Intel 810"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Screen "Screen 1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

#Section "DRI"
#     Mode 0666
#EndSection    

When dri is enabled in XF86Config, X complains
on startup:

    i830.o unresolved symbols
        rwsem_down_write_failed
        rwsem_wake
        insmod i830 failed

The XFree.log says:

    drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
                 : node name is /dev/drx/card0
		 : open result -1 (no such device)
		 : Open failed
    [drm] failed to load kernel module "i830"
    	 
As is, there are no errors.  Either way, X starts.

Any idea what /dev/drx/card0 is ?

Chris