FC5 - Intel 945GM not working

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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
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