[ILUG-BOM] Re: [Ilug-cal-discuss] Fedora Core & Intel 855GM

[Baishampayan Ghose]

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On Sunday 20 August 2006 07:14 PM, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray cobbled together
some glyphs to say:
>> Also, the
>> kernel should use the i915 driver for this card, as I do on my old
>> Toshiba laptop with 855GM and I get very decent 3D support.
> 
> I think I am using the i810 driver. My guess was it should be i915 as
> you said, since the system detects my mother-board as Intel 852 and
> not 855GM. As a result I had earlier tried fiddling with the 2.6.16
> vanilla kernel, where I compiled i915 drivers and removed the i810
> one. I do not remember the exact details of the various configurations
> I tried, but my X simply refused to start.
> 
> Do you have any specific suggestions, or should I just try again and
> get back with the exact things I did.

Try doing this, stop your X, remove i810 (modprobe -r i810) then load
i915 (modprobe i915), start your X. See if it works. If it doesn't then
it's clearly a hardware issue. If it works, then fiddle with your
/etc/modprobe.conf and make sure it loads i915 at next boot instead of i810.

> By the way are you using Ubuntu or Fedora?

I am a Debian / Ubuntu guy. It's been a long time since I have used
anything else.

Regards,
BG

PS - Debarshi, can you kindly fix your mail client (GMail?)? It creates
a new thread each time you reply. Check the list archives to confirm the
issue.

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