Re: Dell 4600 w/Intel Extreme Graphics2

From: Reg (sawilla_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/17/04


Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:01:01 GMT

Did you ever get anything going with this? Under both Red Hat and
Mandrake I get a 640x480 actual resolution with a larger virtual
desktop. In Mandrake I can set the adapter to higher resolutions but it
doesn't have any effect.

Reg

Andrew M. Appel wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:56:37 -0600, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
>
>
>>Andrew M. Appel <andy@andyappel.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Anyone have any luck getting their Linux installation up and running with
>>>X using a Dell 4600 with onboard 'Intel Extreme Graphics 2' video?
>>
>>>I've got a basic setup working under Mandraks 9.2 but only supporting 8B
>>>color. I've no luck getting higher resolutions to work. Any ideas?
>>>I started with Redhat/Fedora but that wouldn't even find the video so I
>>>switched over to Mandrake. At least the Mandrake runs, just not as
>>>optimized as I would like.
>>
>>Make sure you have AGP support compiled either as a module (and loaded)
>>or compiled into the kernel itself.
>>
>>Adam
>
>
> lsmod shows that agpgart is loaded. Just for kicks I'll try a kernel
> build and see how far that gets me.
>
> l8r!
> -Andy



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