Re: FC5 - Intel 945GM not working
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
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