[vox-tech] X4 and Intel 82810 graphics card

Rick Moen vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:35:48 -0800


Quoting msimons@moria.simons-clan.com (msimons@moria.simons-clan.com):

> I've seen plenty of i810 graphics cards work.  If I remember correctly
> there is a kernel module called agpart or something that needs to be
> loaded (which reserves system memory for the chipset which comes with
> none) to be able to use that card.  So I don't think buying another
> card is needed.

Absolutely right.

It might also be easier with XFree86 3.3.6, than with 4.1.0.
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue52/tag/1.html
http://www.exocore.com/technologies/linux/i810/
http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/tips/i810.html

All of those are a little old.  This one's newer, and addresses XFree86
4.x:  http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/i810-HOWTO/

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