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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

"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
news:380c36F5in6bgU1@individual.net...
> 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

Dennis Peere wrote:

> 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

Okey, then you need to see to that you really are using the intel driver and 
not the XF86 driver and if you have a modeline for 1024x768, you need to 
verify that it's correct for your hardware, go to 
http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines
and fill the form as correctly as you can.

If this still don't work, then you have no other choises (frankly I can't se 
why you wouldn't have any option to upgrade, you have root access on the machine).


  //Aho

["Followup-To:" header set to alt.linux.]
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:09:31 +0100, J.O. Aho 
  <user@example.net> wrote:
>
> If this still don't work, then you have no other choises (frankly I
> can't se why you wouldn't have any option to upgrade, you have root
> access on the machine).
>
If it's because you don't have the bandwidth to download CDs, try 
www.ubuntulinux.com.