Running fedora core 2 on Intel 915 chipset

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Wed Sep 1 16:04:12 UTC 2004


>>>>> "MA" == Matthew Asplund <mattasplund at gmail.com> 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<





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