intel 845g

[Enrico Pirani]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Kassopulo" <ckasso at sprynet.com>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: intel 845g


> 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:

You don't have to enable DRI support, because the rendering "calls" came
from the intel's driver.



>     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
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