On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:34:08 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:30:55 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > I'm using FC4-test2 on my week-old Inspiron 6000 notebook. So far I can
> > only use a 1024x768 VESA display on my 1280x800 i915 hardware.
>
> If it's a 915GM try this driver:
>
>
ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/8211/eng/
>
> The driver is not in FC4 yet (as afaik it won't be in it). Note, the
> driver contains a tar.gz that is extracted and installed during %pre ;
> Not very nice... Install kernel-devel before installing the intel rpm.
Thanks, works very well.
Digging a little deeper... (everything works except after a yum update)
As far as I can tell, the above RPM only does 4 things:
1) Renames /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/char/drm/i915.ko
to old.i915.ko.old and the same name with the current date.
Because of compiling errors, no replacement modules are created.
Restoring this file has no effect that that I can see, although it is
loaded.
2) Copies <tarfile>/XOrg/GL/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/X11R6/lib/
3) Copies <tarfile>/XOrg/i915/i810_drv.o to
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/
4) Copies <tarfile>/XOrg/i915/i915_dri.so to
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/
I'm not sure this is entirely all that the RPM is doing, but it's a
start. I'll test further after the next release of xorg RPMs, which seem
to be almost daily daily.
I got rhgb working again by copying the VESA xorg.conf to /etc/rhgb.
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf, xorg has a fatal error ("libc_wrapper error:
passed invalid FILE handle to xf86fputc"). If someone wants the
XFree86.0.log file with the error recorded, just ask (it's 21 KB).
Both xorg.conf files are attached (vesa and i915).
-Paul