Well, with the help of my computer guru, I found the answer. To get fedora core 2 running on a dell gx280 computer, I did the following: Boot the install in textmode, do the install, and when it prompts for a reboot at the end, use <ctrl><alt><F2> to change to a new virtual console. Edit /etc/inittab, and change the default run level to 3 (to keep it from starting X, this is not absolutely necessary, but helps). Reboot. >From here, there is an optional step. If you install the latest 2.6.8-521 kernel, the ethernet will work, which is some help. Install the kernel-2.6.8-521.srpm (rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.8-521.srpm), edit the config file in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES to change the AGP-* to modules. Make a .gnupg directory in your home directory. Do a rpmbuild -ba --target=i686 SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec to build the kernel. Finally do an rpm -ivh on the rpm in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686. Reboot. You should now have ethernet, and not have AGP installed on your machine. Download the Intel drivers from http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-010512.htm?iid=graphics+915main&; get the tar version. expand it out. comment out lines 104-106 from the file dripkg/drm/drm_vm.h and in the file dripkg/drm/Makefile.linux change line 51 from gdg.o and i810.o to gdg.ko and i810.ko. run the install.sh file. Finally, edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the driver from VESA to i81-, and you are done. I don't take all of the credit. Much of that goes to seth who figured most of it out. Anyway, it worked for me. matthew asplund On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 11:04:12 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>>> "MA" == Matthew Asplund <mattasplund@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > MA> As far as X11, no luck so far. Even with the device set for VESA > MA> (using a Dell 19" LCD with DVI connector) the monitor goes to > MA> sleep, and I get a warning saying that it cannot lock a region of > MA> memory. > > You could try installing the latest versions of kernel, xorg-x11, > hwdata and system-config-display from rawhide. I recall a notice that > i915 DRM made it into the newer kernels (i915.ko exists in 2.6.8-1.533 > at least) and I'm pretty sure it's supported in the latest Xorg > snapshots as well. > > - J< >
