Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Attn: leen.meyer Are you still around? Still want to try 'vga=ask'

Hiho_at_Silver.com
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:37:21 GMT

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:38:30 +0000, Hih wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 08:33:19 +0100, baskitcaise
> <baskitcaise@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Have just had a quick look and it appears to be an quite old package ( dates
>>here from over 12 months ago ) so I would be tempted to try the Intel ones
>>as they seem newer.
>>
>>1) But looking at the script you will needs to unpack it, right click and in
>>the menu choose Actions>Extract Here ( this is on KDE3.2.1 so you might not
>>have the "Actions" part, just use "Extract Here" or "Extract Using Ark" or
>>"Karchiver" )
>>
>>2) move into the dir called "dripkg" with koqueror and open a terminl from
>>the Tools menu, su to root and enter your password.
>>
>>3) type "sh ./install.sh" without quotes you will get a warning that the X
>>server is running and that you will need to restart the server after the
>>install or you need to drop to init 3 now. You can carry on by pressing
>>enter and just follow the onscreen instructions.
>>
>>That is as far as I have gone with this as I don`t want to mess my Xfree 4.4
>>up by putting older modules in, I have looked at the timestamp on these
>>files and it appears the have the same time as the ones that are included
>>with XFree 4.4 but are different sizes so there does appear to be a
>>difference.
>>
>>Once the install is complete ( it might have to compile a new module so just
>>follow the directions ) you will have to log out of KDE, at the login
>>screen of kde ( where you choose which user to start up ), or if you
>>automatic login set then when in KDE press Ctrl+Alt+F1 this will switch
>>you to a terminal type "init 3" without quotes and this will turn off the
>>X-server.
>>
>>Now you will need to run sax ( type "sax" on the command line ) sax should
>>start for you to reconfigure your graphics you should now be able to choose
>>your i845 chipset and configure your screens.
>>
>>Don`t forget when using sax that you need to choose which resolutions you
>>want by going to "Colour & Resolutions" and putting a tick in the
>>resolutions you require, then when it is all configured do a test before
>>saving, if it does not work "DO NOT" save it as you might end up with no
>>graphics.
>>
>>Once all is working save and exit back to the terminal and type "init 5" to
>>get you back to multi user with Xserver and that should be it.
>>
>>If the reuslts are not satisfactory "I" would go and grab the package from
>>intel as it appears to be a later version, however I have not got that one
>>so do not know how it installs, if you would prefer to do it this way then
>>let me know here and I will have a look how that one installs for you.
>>
>>If any of this is unclear then please ask before you do any of it ( I have
>>not had my second coffee yet and the gray matter is not at its best :) if
>>you mess up you might be left with a non working X server which might be
>>easy for some of us to get out of but could leave you a "in deep doo doo ©"
>>
>>Good luck.
>>
>>Keep us informed.
>>
>>If anyone can spot any big holes in my instructions or have had this problem
>>on this chipset can they please *** in now before hiho follows them?
>
>
> I had completed steps one and two and had the install.sh file under
> directory dripkg, and even su'ed to root. But double clicking
> (Windows influence) & right clicking on install.sh did nothing - I
> will try sh on it.
>
> I'll let ya know.......
>
> Thanks

Well I got this far and got the following (I immediately quit):

The script will now compile the agpgart module and DRM kernel modules
for your machine.

Press ENTER to continue or CTRL-C to exit.

Compiling new agpgart module...

ERROR: AGPGART module did not compile

Compiling DRM module...

ERROR: Kernel modules did not compile

WARNING: The existing DRM kernel module available on your system might
work; however, using an older module may severly limit functionality
or performance!!! It is recommended that you upgrade to the latest
DRM kernel module. For further details see:

        http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/DRIcompile.html#s4

Press ENTER to continue with the existing kernel module or CTRL-C to exit.