FC5 - Intel 945GM not working

[Jim Cornette]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> David Timms wrote:
>> Marcel Groner wrote:
>>> hello
>>>
>>> I've got a samsung q35 (Centrino Duo) with the following graphics
>>> chipset:
>> I guess that may be brand spanking new ...
>>
>>> I installed the latest Fedora Core 5 and upgraded the kernel yesterday:
>> Did you update xorg stuff as well ?
>> Or all updates ?
>>
>>> (II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
>>> i810-dc100,
>>>         i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),
>>>         915GM, 945G
>>> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
>>> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
>>> (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1)
>>> found
>>> (EE) No devices detected.
>>>
>>> Fatal server error:
>>> no screens found
>>>
>>> does anyone know how to fix that?
>> Looking at: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages section 1.7.1,
>> Either the driver set is not the correct driver or it is the best fit
>> but not yet supported.
>> I see the i810 mentions 945G but not 945GM. They might be close enough
>> to be able to hack the detection into thinking you have a 945 ?
>>
>> Is the graphics chip in pci-ids.txt:
>> # lspci -v -s 00:02.1
>> What is the pci-id ?
>> # lspci -n -s 00:02.1
>>
>> DaveT.
>>
> 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


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