Re: Debian XFree86 on Intel 82865G help needed

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Author: Derek Neighbors
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Debian XFree86 on Intel 82865G help needed
What is your refresh rate currently set at? It looks like this chipset
might be tempermental with anything over 85Hz. If you can post your
configuration file and the output from the X log file that would help.

-Derek

Eric Richardson wrote:

> Derek Neighbors wrote:
>
>> Can you run lspci -v so that we can know exactly what you have?
>
> I wasn't able to get the whole output yet (no drives, no mail yet) but
> lspci -v did report the following which looked out of the ordinary.
> Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0151
>
> dmesg reported:
> Intel 810 + AC97 Audio v1.01
> i830.o and agpgart.o loaded
> ...
> agpgart: max main memory for agp 202M
> agpgart: Detected an Intel(R) 856G Chipset
> agpgart: Detected 892k stolen memory
> agpgart: AGP aperature is 128M
> [drm] AGP 0.99 Aperature @ 0xf0000000 12MB
> [drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 0
>
> I have a feeling that 256MB ram is not enough for this setup.
>
> I also found on the web a note to answer no to framebuffer on setup.
>
> I did rerun the setup: dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 but did
> not see the fb option.
> Is it in that big long module selection list?
>
> Here is some select output from /var/log/XFree86.0.log that I though
> might help.
>
> (- - ) framebuffer bpp32
> (II) BIOS 12288KB Video Ram
> (WW) Extended BIOS function 0xff11 not supported
> ...
> (==) Video Ram 32768 kbyte
> (- -) Preallocate 892 kbyte
> (==) Dell (65536)
> (- -) Max framebuffer space 32616 kbyte
> (II) I810(0) DFP(digital flatpanel)
> (II) No display size info for pipe A
>
> I got it running still at 640x480 and hopefully they will get me some
> more RAM in case that is the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>>
>> -Derek
>>
>> Eric Richardson wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I trying to get Xwindows on Debian Sarge 3.1r0a working on a Dell
>>> desktop and LCD 19"(I think) monitor. The Graphics chip is 82865G with
>>> shared memory, I think :-(. The display is a Dell 2001FP with AGP. I
>>> went throught the install and selected a few different resolutions and
>>> got the following error.
>>>
>>> (EE) I810(0): No video BIOS modes for chosen depth.
>>> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>>> clip
>>>
>>
>
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