Various computer installs and results.

[Jim Cornette]

Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:
>>>The Video controller is:

> 
> Sadly, this card is built into the machine, and I am not sure there is an
> AGP slot, I will have to take it apart and see.  In understand that not
> everything works in linux all the time, but it is sad to see a piece of
> hardware that was "safe" suddenly become unusable.
> 

This problem and the 3com NIC were both surprises to me. Regarding the 
815 GC, it did not work well in other linux distros, Debian was the 
worst back a few years. The card has always worked well for RH distros. 
It still works fine with 24 as the depth setting. The last BIOS upgrade 
put it up to an 815e if that makes any difference in why your card does 
not work.

>
>>There is also a triaged bug for the i810 at the below link. This
>>includes the noacceleration parameter for X. The bug I filed earlier was
>>marke as a duplicate of this report.
> 

I dug through the bug report and examined where the NoAccel option is 
located. The bug reporter had very high resolution settings. This line 
might work when added.

One note about this refresh problem. The server related functions have 
to be restarted before you can run without the screen messing up. I 
rebooted to cure this. I wasn't sure as to what to restart without 
rebooting.
Changing from runlevel 3 to runlevel 5 didn't do the trick. The 
refreshproblem was still present.

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "i810"
	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
	BoardName   "Intel 815"
	Option	    "NoAccel"
EndSection

> 
> 
> I was wondering if I turned DRI, etc. off, if it might work normally... I
> wonder exactly what is failing. Someone mentioned before bad memory, but
> according to dmesg, this card has 4mb dedicated memory.
> 
I think this was tried by Mike and he had to cold reboot and the other 
installation, FC2 was affected by this problem. I might have 
misinterpreted his refresh, no dri problem.

Jim

> 
>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132267

>>
> 
> thx,
>     noah silva
> 
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