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No i810 driver...why?

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jdr
#1 Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:52 am
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Hi,
I've just installed DeLi on an old PC with Intel 810 onboard graphics, but X does not work. Everything is configured properly, but I always get the message:
(EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0)

Indeed the files i810_drv.la and i810_drv.so are missing in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers. Why? How can I get them?
delix
#2 Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:15 pm
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http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/intel?action=show&redirect=i810
littlebat
#3 Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:56 am
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Post your xorg.conf, maybe someone can help you.
I have ever installed DeLi Linux on an i810 motherboard machine with onboard display card, and start X window successfully. I have forgotten the config of this machine. Or, you can try the vesa driver in the xorg.conf.
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jdr
#4 Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:39 pm
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Hm, I strongly dislike VESA because I use a CRT monitor that causes eye-cancer at a refresh rate of 60 Hz.
I also tried to compile the drivers myself, but it didn't work.
Here's what I did:
Downloaded/compiled/installed libxv, libxvmc, xineramaproto (because i810's ./configure said that they were missing). After that, ./configure worked, but make still does not:

i810_driver.c: In function `I810ScreenInit':
i810_driver.c:2100: warning: unused variable `driFrom'
i830_accel.c: In function `CheckTiling':
i830_accel.c:406: error: structure has no member named `front_tiled'
i830_accel.c:408: error: structure has no member named `rotated_tiled'
i830_accel.c:410: error: structure has no member named `BackBuffer'
i830_accel.c:410: error: structure has no member named `back_tiled'
i830_accel.c:413: error: structure has no member named `DepthBuffer'
i830_accel.c:413: error: structure has no member named `depth_tiled'
make[3]: *** [i830_accel.lo] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
delix
#5 Wed May 14, 2008 7:37 am
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just by chance I noticed the file /usr/bin/Xi810. I guess this IS the binary of the XOrg driver.
But don't ask me how it should be used.
jdr
#6 Fri May 30, 2008 4:08 am
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I'll try 0.8.0 after my vacation. Hope it'll work in the latest version.
haary
#7 Fri May 30, 2008 8:10 am
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Sorry, i810 didn't built. It was because the GL-stuff is absent IIRC.
littlebat
#8 Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:52 am
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I can only use tiny-x server on my i810 onboard display card machine, and I downloaded the source but can't build it successfully myself, some errors apeared like jdr reported above. Here is the source link: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html , and Installation Guide link : http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/install.html
I tried vesa xorg driver, I can startx but only appeared many vertical lines on the screen. I tried vga xorg driver, I can startx but the screen resolution only probably is 480*320.
littlebat
#9 Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:56 am
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I tried these above on DeLi 0.8.
haary
#10 Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:31 pm
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littlebat wrote
I tried vesa xorg driver, I can startx but only appeared many vertical lines on the screen.


Very strange. I suspect that your monitor settings are not quite correct. You might need special settings for your monitor. Please post the outpout of lspci and the exact specifications of your monitor.
littlebat
#11 Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:23 am
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Below is the output of "lspci":
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (GMCH) Graphics Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA USB Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801AA SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)


And, below is my monitor spcification, but, it had been repaired once,
the real specification maybe changed already:
The monitor specification come from: http://www.reject.org/tsd/liz/gbppr/mil/eckbox/monitors.html.
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Vendor: LG Electronics Inc.
Model: LG StudioWorks 55i
EDID: gsm3abd
Horizontal Sync (Hz): 30.0-54.0
Vertcal Sync (Hz): 50.0-90.0
DPMS.: Yes


Below is part of my xorg.conf, it can't work under Ubuntu 6.06 LTS yet,
but, if I change Driver to "i810", it works well under Ubuntu.
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Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 54.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa"
Card "* Generic VESA compatible"
EndSection
littlebat
#12 Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:23 am
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Ok, I have gotten i810 driver under deli0.8 and it works well on my onboard i810 display card.
I borrowed and modified the PKGBUILD file from archlinux: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/xf86-video-i810/ , after built many dependent packages (Additionally，I must copied some neccessry include files from ubuntu 6.0.6 for compiling packages), as a result, I got some packages and uploaded them to http://groups.google.com/group/learndiary/files , include:
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glproto-1.4.9-1.pkg.tar.gz
Dashing.M...@gmail.com 21.1 KB Aug 8 Delete Report this file

intel-dri-7.0.3-1.pkg.tar.gz
Dashing.M...@gmail.com 3.3 MB Aug 8 Delete Report this file

libdrm-2.3.0-1.pkg.tar.gz
Dashing.M...@gmail.com 78.6 KB Aug 8 Delete Report this file

libgl-7.0.3-2.pkg.tar.gz
Dashing.M...@gmail.com 137.9 KB Aug 8 Delete Report this file

libxv-1.0.4-1.pkg.tar.gz
Dashing.M...@gmail.com 30.8 KB Aug 8 Delete Report this file

libxvmc-1.0.4-1.pkg.tar.gz
Dashing.M...@gmail.com 17.9 KB Aug 8 Delete Report this file

mesa-7.0.3-3.pkg.tar.gz
Dashing.M...@gmail.com 682.4 KB Aug 8 Delete Report this file

xf86-video-i810-1.7.4-10.pkg.tar.gz
Dashing.M...@gmail.com 169.1 KB Aug 8 Delete Report this file

xf86driproto-2.0.4-1.pkg.tar.gz
Dashing.M...@gmail.com 3.1 KB Aug 8


If you have such a onboard i810 display card, you can try it.
PsynoKhi0
#13 Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:50 pm
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Still kinda green at building packages... though, besides the intel packages, does that mean one can have hardware 3d acceleration on DeLi installing your files littlebat?
littlebat
#14 Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:37 am
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Sorry, I'm not sure if hardware 3d acceleration can work with installing my files above. It only means I can get a normal displaying for my onboard i810 video card.
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Colonel Panic
#15 Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:36 pm
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I've got no problem running XVESA in Deli (I also have an i810, though onboard), but I don't have any luck getting XOrg to work in Deli 7.2.

Question; is there any way of determining how much video memory I've got? Windows has apps like SiSoft Sandra which give a comprehensive record of your computer's installed hardware. but I haven't seen anything similar for Linux.

Thanks in advance.
delix
#16 Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:15 am
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I'm using SuSE's hwinfo on an old SuSE system
Colonel Panic
#17 Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:50 pm
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Thanks. I've looked but can't see a version available for download.

I had thought of getting an old version of SUSE though (I don't think my computer would run a current one) for all the utilities, games etc.), but I've got used to .tgz packages now so if I did get another "big" distro now it would probably be one like Vector or Zenwalk which are based on Slackware but easier to install and configure.
« Last edit by Colonel Panic on Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:53 pm. »
delix
#18 Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:17 pm
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http://hwinfo.klik.atekon.de/

I didn't test it, but as far as I understood it should work without installation :shock:
delix
#19 Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:34 pm
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http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hwinfo/hwinfo_15.3.orig.tar.gz

these are the plain sources on the debian repository -- but I don't know whether there will work with DeLi or any other distro then debian without modifications;
but it's interesting anyway, so please report the results if you're going to try it
Colonel Panic
#20 Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:18 pm
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Thanks; I'll give it a go.
« Last edit by Colonel Panic on Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:21 pm. »
Colonel Panic
#21 Sat Feb 07, 2009 7:31 pm
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Update; I couldn't get hwinfo to install in my system. I did, however, use the lspci command (specifically, lspci -v -s 00:02.0), from which I got the value of 64MB for my video memory, which looks suspiciously large for a 7- or 8-year old computer (a Compaq Pentium III).

Could anyone please tell me whether or not some of that might be accounted for by the fact that the card is an on board one and therefore uses some of the system RAM?
PsynoKhi0
#22 Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:46 pm
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If it's the case, then there should be a setting in your BIOS to adjust the value. Not sure it will solve your Xorg issues though. (I've recently helped an acquaintance get a computer with the same chip up and running, and it was a pain, though it wasn't with DeLi).
Colonel Panic
#23 Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:05 pm
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Thanks for the info. Xorg works OK in Zenwalk 4 though so I'm a bit nervous of messing around with the BIOS in order to sort out something which might be a simple software problem.

The next time I'm in Deli I'll try and set up Xorg again from scratch and see what happens.

Regards,

Colonel Panic .
« Last edit by Colonel Panic on Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:07 pm. »

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