Re: Video Card on Motherboard

["Chuck Collins" <chuck c mnmaps com>]

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:13:53PM -0600, Chuck Collins wrote:
> An intel CA810 motherboard with built-in video - uses the ram from main
mem
> bank - the amount varies and I do not know the clock chip id or speed -
the
> video will support up to 1280 x 1024 - I am attempting to install at 1024
x
> 768. I get a super large image - I estimate to be 1/4 of the screen image
> fills up the screen - so I do not see 3/4 of the screen. I have tried
> different video interfaces, video mem etc and have not changed anything.
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Eric Larson Wrote:
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The 810 is so new there is very scant Linux support for it.
Here is a note about it from the kernel developer's mailing list:
Intel funded development of the 810 video driver, which has been released to
the XFree86 team for inclusion in 3.3.6. Until then you can download the
XFCom X server for the 810 chipset at
ftp://ftp.precisioninsight.com/pub/precisio/XFCom/";
Also note that apparently the 810 driver can't use more than 1MB of memory
without the AGPGART kernel module. (available from glx cvs if nowhere else)"
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Jose M. Sanchez Wrote:
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What you are seeing is the default 320x200 X windows vga startup screen.
This is why things look so large.
You get this when the configurator cannot figure out how to deal with your
video card... I.E. it might not be supported.
Try running

SuperProbe -v

If you get back a "Generic or VGA" your video card is not supported. You
might want to check to see EXACTLY what chipset your motherboard has on it
(find your documentation) and then go to the XFree86 page and see if they
have a server which supports your video adapter.

-JMS
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I am going to replace the on board video with a video PCI card that is on
the approved list. The motherboard setup permits another card to replace the
onboard video. This seems like the simplest of all solutions.

Thanks to all that responded.

Chuck Collins
Nucomm Data, Inc.
mailto:chuck c mnmaps com
(612) 591-0820
http://www.mnmaps.com
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