Problem with XServer (Red hat 7.1) on 810 chipset

Hello,

I have installed linux 7.1 that came with PCQuest.
I have celeron 633MHz, withh 64 MB ram & a intel 810 chipset.
My XSERVER (KDE or gnome) doesnt always run. Rarely does it run. Sometimes, the XServer starts & then while loading some error occurs & the flush memory message appears.
My friend told me that i will have to add an external video card to make it run.
Pl. help.

Regards,
Amit Gholap.

I got the same problem with 810 chip.

I cahanged my motherboard with an S3 video on board and all was ok (not so good motherboard but stable ...).

If it's not so expensive try this or deactivate video on board if you can from bios and then add a new video card (not video on board).

Maybe S3 is good. Always I have no problems with S3.

Regards.

Hello,
Though few of my friends / sys admins really insist that red hat linux 7.1 works really well on their pc.
If any one can reply their BIOS values it wud be helpfull.
('cos it a know fact that Win98SE stand by doesnt always work. my friend was trying hard to disable it from the OS. but i told him to disable the power management from BIOS & that really helped.
may be same could be the case with linux 7.1. there might be some BIOS setting).
Pl. any one with a stable linux on a 810 chipset, reply tellin abt. the setting which you think might make an impact.
Regards,
~A.

Also it really stupid from the part of linux developers, not to support (may be there might be some settings, i dont know) one of the widely used motherboards.

Hello,
In the bios i changed the setting of the VGA card from Add-on to On-board.
Now XServer is working fine. Though its v slow, since i installed it on fat32.
~A.

Hey I had the same problem something that might help is if you have the 2.4.X kernel do this.....
cd /dev
mknod agpgart c 10 185
it acts as a go between since the 810 is agp
though i'm still having problems i can get it to run at any resolution and 16 or 24 bit color