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Re: Trouble with onboard video for Dell Optiplex 745 and Athena installs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Sep 6 18:15:26 2007
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To: Myron Freeman <fletch1@eecs.MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:14:42 -0400
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
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> The default vesa driver. Drivers specific for the Intel GMA3000
> built-in graphics on the motherboard doesn't seem to exist in the
> version of Linux that Athena currently uses.
This is indeed the case; my apologies for the confusion. I was getting
my RHEL versions and drivers crossed up a bit; the relevant RHEL4 driver
is indeed "i810" and it does indeed support only through the i865.
Given Red Hat's general strategy of backporting hardware support, I sorta
expect to get i965 support into RHEL4's xorg-x11 package at some point,
but that's likely to be in an almost-useless timeframe given that it's
not in the 4.5 beta. We've got a request in to Red Hat for clarification
on if/when we'll see i965/GMA3000 support in RHEL4, but haven't heard
back yet.
> I'll buy a few Radeon x1300/x1550 cards and try them.
This may be the easiest path for the moment. I've got hardware locally
available to reproduce the problem and will see what I can see. The
newer open-source driver from Intel for this hardware (that wdc mentioned
in previous email) could also be an option if I can get a clean build.
(We've got a framework for installing standalone drivers now; may as well
use it!)
