Status on that intel GFX chip?

[Hugh McGuirk]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 21:46 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I just wonder, and i know it has been brought up a zillion times - but
> what are the current status of the intel gfx (i815?) xorg driver? Any
> updates (rpms) that could be easily pushed into my net via admin-script?
> 
> The vesa driver works - but it refuses to do anything more than a bare
> minimum resolution, and the intel driver has some... funny... side
> effects. Not anything i would like to expose my users to, really
> 
> Kyrre
> 

Ive a DELL laptop running a i830M chip, and it works fine, including
accelerated 3D.

I'm unsure about the current xorg driver, but on this laptop, previous
XFree86 drivers had problems if certain BIOS versions were used. The
latest BIOS's did not return correct memory size information, so only
the lowest resolutions worked, as it defaulted to 1MB memory available
to graphics. 

The solution was to downgrade the BIOS by a few revisions.

Hugh.