i830M chipset

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 19:55:33 -0700 "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
> exclaimed:
>
> > which distro are you using?  can you post the _last_ section of your
> > XF86Config file?
>
> I am using Slack 9.1 that has been upgraded to -current with swaret, ie XF
> 4.4.0, KDE 3.2.1 manually upgraded to a 2.6.5 kernel.
>
> Here is my current XF86Config file-lower section:
>
> Section "Device"
>
>         ### Available Driver options are:-
>         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>         ### [arg]: arg optional
>         #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "ColorKey"           	# <i>
>         #Option     "CacheLines"         	# <i>
>         #Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "DRI"                	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "NoDDC"              	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"       	# <i>
>         #Option     "PageFlip"           	# [<bool>]
> 	Identifier  "Card0"
> 	Driver      "i810"
> 	VendorName  "Intel Corp."
> 	BoardName   "82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]"
> 	VideoRam    8192

What if you comment out the VideoRam section?  I know with my boxes that
use the i810 driver, if I try to specify the RAM, it always blows up and
won't do more than 640x480 at 8bpp.

> 	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier "Screen0"
> 	Device     "Card0"
> 	Monitor    "Monitor0"
> #	DefaultDepth	16
> 	DefaultDepth	8
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth     16
> 		Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> 		ViewPort	0 0
> 	EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     8
>                 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>                 ViewPort        0 0
>         EndSubSection

What happens if you remove the entire '8' subsection above?

Also, havce you checked the XFree86 log to see if there are any errors?

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