Jim Cornette wrote: >> 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 > All I can tell you is that I untared i915-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2 and ran the install script in it. It found the correct directory, and updated the files. As far as RPM is concerned, the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so file is owned by xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.4.1.3-3.1 and the /usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so is owned by mesa-libGL-6.4.2-6. i810_drv.so was updated by the install script, and the i915_drv.so was added. Now, when xorg-x11-drv-i810 gets updated, it will overwrite my updated file. But I am hoping that the updated driver will included in that release. If not, I'll have to replace it again. (I really should build an RPM with the updates...) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
