Has anyone has any luck with this video driver lately? I've found some references to it in various threads here, but it seems like it might not be working in the slackware-12.2?
The best info I found suggested that it might work with slack-12.0 if the xf86-video driver from patches was installed. I don't seem to be having much luck with this.....

I'm not a "slacker," but I've had problems with one of my (64-bit) desktop systems with an on-board 845G. In my case, it was because the driver failed to properly read the monitor state information from the 22" LCD monitor I was using. Switching to a smaller 17" CRT got me a usable display, and a "prototype" xorg.conf that I could modify with the 22" LCD display manufacturer's values. With the correct values specified in xorg.conf, the driver works fine.

F.Y.I.: The driver failed on Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Koppinix, Vista, and XP. So I concluded that it was a flaw in the new driver design, not hardware. (Since there's no xorg.conf to modify on Windows systems, I rolled the driver back to the 2007, pre-FOSS, release that worked and left it there.)

My 845G onboard video works great as long as I use the i810 driver and not the intel driver. The intel driver has simply never worked well on my machine.