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On board graphics for GX-110
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Nov 2 17:35:16 2000
Message-Id: <0u0SXkRz00019SOVgD@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:21:36 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
I was shown the location on the dell web site to obtain an RPM that
makes the onboard graphics of the GX-110 work for X under Red Hat 6.2.
The RPM consists of two trivial changes that are a little scary:
An XF86Config file that enables a 1024x768x16 graphics device (with
instructions to install nonexistant other config files for different
resolutions.)
An amendment to rc.d/rc.modules:
modprobe agpgart
Why are these scarey to me?
I don't know what adpgart is, and whether it is stable, alpha or beta.
I don't know why the other XF86Config files that do other resolutions
were not included. There is one that is supposed to do 1600x1200x32,
but the 1280x1024 is only 16 bits deep. So I don't know if the
resolution we'd want to drive these puppys at (1280x1024x32) will
actually work.
What do people think might be the value of playing with the on board
GX110 video?
-wdc
