Re: FC5 - Intel 945GM not working

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Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
David Timms wrote:
Marcel Groner wrote:
hello

I've got a samsung q35 (Centrino Duo) with the following graphics
chipset:
I guess that may be brand spanking new ...

I installed the latest Fedora Core 5 and upgraded the kernel yesterday:
Did you update xorg stuff as well ?
Or all updates ?

(II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
i810-dc100,
        i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),
        915GM, 945G
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1)
found
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

does anyone know how to fix that?
Looking at: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages section 1.7.1,
Either the driver set is not the correct driver or it is the best fit
but not yet supported.
I see the i810 mentions 945G but not 945GM. They might be close enough
to be able to hack the detection into thinking you have a 945 ?

Is the graphics chip in pci-ids.txt:
# lspci -v -s 00:02.1
What is the pci-id ?
# lspci -n -s 00:02.1

DaveT.

Coming into this late, but this may help. What I did on my Toshiba
laptop to make it work was to get i915-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2
from http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/. Make sure you only
install that file, and not the common-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2
file, or you will break things. (I ended up with a blank screen and
had to get rid of the files from
common-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2.) You then pick the i810 driver.
It gives you much better video then using the VESA driver. You are
installing a replacement i810 and an i915 module.

Now if I can just get DMA working on the DVD drive, life will be
good. (hdparm returns an error when I try and set it.)

Mikkel

What snapshot would be better to use for the 865G video? Would the i810 or the i915 snapshot be more appropriate?

Some earlier poster reported a blank screen with the stock install of xorg-x11 that Fedora maintains. I have no problem with my installation using the stock version.

Anyway, if replacing the stock with the snapshots works, bugs should be files in bugzilla for Fedora and the xorg i810 driver version.

I had to replace Fedora compiled versions with snapshots before. It is possible but needs repeated when the xorg-x11 driver for the i810 gets replaced.

Agreed that the difference between the vesa driver and the i810 are worth getting the i810 working either from using the snapshot or not.

When I had problems with the driver the i810_drv.so was all I replaced. The location of the driver is different for FC5.
locate i810_drv
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so

Does replacing the dri show any improvements? I am wondering because the blank screen problem for Intel video cards was with xorg component with my problem which was not a blank screen.
/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so


More curious and also hope to lead to getting the "one size fits all" Intel driver fixed for the many Intel video cards it supports. (And lead the other user with he blank screen to a solution.

Jim


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Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong.


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