[K12OSN] intel 82845g video card

[Jim McQuillan]

On Mon, September 11, 2006 10:00 am, Ray Garza wrote:
> On Sunday 10 September 2006 23:28, Sudev Barar wrote:
>> On 11/09/06, Ray Garza <rgarza28 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have several PC's with the Intel 82845G internal video cards that
>> > xserver sill not start on. Anyone have any experience with these
>> cards?
>>
>> AFAIK 845 chipset has some problems even when run as fat clients.
>> Google for work arounds and also try "vesa" server instead of i810.
>
> Poking around google I found this line:
>
> go into the bios under Advanced > Video Configuration > Frame Buffer Size
> and
> change it to 8mb since it defaults to 1mb.
>
> I've been in BIOS and recall seeing it at 8M but I'll go back a verify...
>
> and this link:
> http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-010512.htm
>
> According to the above link it would help to load the agpgart.o module so,

agpgart is loaded statically in the LTSP kernels, so you don't need to
load the module.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org




> I
> think I need to have my lts.conf to be:
>
> XSERVER               = i810
> X_VIDEORAM        = 8192
> X_MODE_0            = 800x600
> MODULE_01		= agpgart.o
>
> I choose 8M for the video ram simply beacuse that's how much the card
> borrows
> from system ram. I also choose 800x600 just as a starting point.
>
> Ray
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