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"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> Dennis Peere wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I'm having problems getting an onboard i845 VGA to work @ 1024 x 768 in
> > RedHat 8.0 => It only wants to work @ 800 x 600
> > Upgrading to e newer version of RedHat/Fedora is not an option for me
:-(
> > Hope someone will be able to help me out here
>
> Oh gosh, you know redhat 8 is unsupported, not even fedoralegacy.org does
> support it and if you do not yourself see to upgrade pacakges, you will
have a
> quite unsecure computer. You should at least upgrade to RH9, which is a
lot
> more stable than the unstable RH8 (sadly not as stables as RH7.3 and of
course
> not as good, both 7.3 and 9 is supported by fedoralegacy.org).
>
>
> > This is the error I get in /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> > (II) I810(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 30.00-61.00 kHz
> > (II) I810(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 56.00-76.00 Hz
> > (II) I810(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (no mode of this name)
> > (II) I810(0): Increasing the scanline pitch to allow tiling mode (800 ->
> > 1024).
> > (--) I810(0): Virtual size is 800x600 (pitch 1024)
> > (**) I810(0): Built-in mode "800x600"
> > (**) I810(0): Built-in mode "640x480"
> > (--) I810(0): Display dimensions: (300, 230) mm
> > (--) I810(0): DPI set to (67, 66)
>
>  From the XFree86 4.2 online driver manual:
>
> Description
> i810 is an XFree86 driver for the Intel i810 family of graphics chipsets.
The
> driver supports depths 8, 15, 16 and 24. All visual types are supported in
> depth 8, other depths only support TrueColor. The driver supports hardware
> accelerated 3D via the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI), but only in
> depth 16.
> Supported Hardware
> i810 supports the i810, i810-DC100, i810e and i815 chipsets.
>
> Configuration Details
> Please refer to XF86Config(5) for general configuration details. This
section
> only covers configuration details specific to this driver.
>
> The i810 has a unified memory architecture and uses system memory for
video
> ram. By default 8 Megabytes of system memory are used for graphics. This
> amount may be changed with the VideoRam entry in the config file Device
> section. It may be set to any power of two between 4 and 32 Megabytes
> inclusive to allow the user to customize the balance between main memory
usage
> and graphics performance. Too little memory reserved for graphics can
result
> in decreased 3D and 2D graphics performance and features.
>
> The following driver Options are supported
>
> Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
>      Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration is enabled.
> Option "SWCursor" "boolean"
>      Disable or enable software cursor. Default: software cursor is
disable
> and a hardware cursor is used.
> Option "ColorKey" "integer"
>      This sets the default pixel value for the YUV video overlay key.
Default:
> undefined.
> Option "CacheLines" "integer"
>      This allows the user to change the amount of graphics memory used for
2D
> acceleration and video. Decreasing this amount leaves more for 3D
textures.
> Increasing it can improve 2D performance at the expense of 3D performance.
> Default: 256 to 768 depending on the resolution and depth.
>
>
> You should get your X upgraded to xorg 6.8.2 if you want to have a chance
to
> get things to work better, the i810 driver is quite basic in XFree86 pre
4.4
> (most distros has changed over to xorg, due the the new license for
xfree86
> and that xfree86.org hasn't declared about their future).
>
>
>   //Aho

Dear,

I've already had this discussion several times before and I really regret
not having the option to upgrade...
Is there any chanve I could get 1024 x 768 to work without upgrading my
current RH 8.0 and Xfree86-4.2.0-72 ?
I've already installed dripkg-1.0-4.i386.rpm as mentionned on
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-010512.htm

Regards
Dennis