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Quote:

Originally posted by Ilgar
I remember seeing something like a kernel driver patch to increase the resolution in those video chipsets. I found this link, you may find it useful:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/

Thanks alot for the link. I will go check it out :)

And offcourse drop a line...especially if it works ;)

Quote:

Originally posted by Chinaman
I have never changed that video ram setting. It's not used anyway, as you
can see it is commented out (has a # in front of it).

Do you mean that you've changed xorg.conf and still have those problems?
When you installed the driver from Intel, how did you do it? What module?
Please post the output of "lsmod" and did you get the README.txt file for that?

Oh I didn't see the quote :rolleyes:

No I didn't change xorg.conf but neither did the install of the drivers from intel.

First i extracted the tar.gz

I installed using: ./install.sh and followed the 'options'

Quote:

Originally posted by antiloaded
What nvidia driver? Please explain im a :newbie:

Sorry getting Chinamans post mixed with yours :rolleyes:

Quote:

Originally posted by dive
Sorry getting Chinamans post mixed with yours :rolleyes:

Oh im releaved :p I just thought...

The install of the drivers from Intel will not change your xorg.conf file.
You must change that manually, yourself. Post your modules using the
"lsmod" command so we can see which modules you have loaded.

Quote:

Originally posted by Chinaman
The install of the drivers from Intel will not change your xorg.conf file.
You must change that manually, yourself. Post your modules using the
"lsmod" command so we can see which modules you have loaded.

Arghh hehe, well i've suspected that for quite some time :scratch:

I will get back with the outputs tomorrow, im off to get my :newbie: beauty sleep

Hey there Chinaman,

Here is output from lsmod

Code:

root@lb7:~# lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted

snd-pcm-oss            36736  0  (unused)

snd-mixer-oss          12376  0  [snd-pcm-oss]

keybdev                1892  0  (unused)

mousedev                4020  1

usbkbd                  2936  0  (unused)

hid                    20868  0  (unused)

usbmouse                1880  0  (unused)

input                  3200  0  [keybdev mousedev usbkbd hid usbmouse]

pciehp                66868  0  (unused)

pci_hotplug            15236  1  [pciehp]

uhci                  24284  0  (unused)

ehci-hcd              17516  0  (unused)

usbcore                59148  1  [usbkbd hid usbmouse uhci ehci-hcd]

snd-intel8x0          18304  0

snd-ac97-codec        58556  0  [snd-intel8x0]

snd-pcm                54344  0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec]

snd-timer              13764  0  [snd-pcm]

snd                    32772  0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer]

soundcore              3396  4  [snd]

snd-page-alloc          4712  0  [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd]

tg3                    57868  1

pcmcia_core            39172  0

ide-scsi                9392  0

agpgart                47464  0  (unused)

root@lb7:~#

Did changing the default depth help with your resolution problem, or is X still refusing to start?
Do you see any errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

Quote:

Originally posted by antiloaded
Hey there Chinaman,

Here is output from lsmod

Code:

root@lb7:~# lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted agpgart 47464 0 (unused) root@lb7:~#

This is a bit beyond my ability atm, but I'll tell you what I see.

Here's a look at mine on a box with an ATI chipset:

Code:

bruce@titus:~$ lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by

radeon                76800  1 

drm                    60692  2 radeon

ati_agp                6924  1 

agpgart                29896  2 drm,ati_agp

You don't appear to have any DRM modules loaded.

I've downloaded and untarred i915Graphics.tar.gz, and
read ./dripkg/install.sh, as well as a lot more in there.
It looks to me like both the agp and drm modules should
be installed in your kernel by that script.

Issue the two commands below and post the results. You
will need to replace 2.6.13.4 with your kernel version. If you
don't know it, issue "uname -r" to find out.

Code:

bruce@titus:~$ ls -alh /lib/modules/2.6.13.4/kernel/drivers/char/drm/

total 168K

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 104 2005-10-10 21:19 ./

drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 136 2005-10-10 21:19 ../

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 73K 2005-10-10 21:19 drm.ko

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 89K 2005-10-10 21:19 radeon.ko

bruce@titus:~$ ls -alh /lib/modules/2.6.13.4/kernel/drivers/char/agp/ 

total 48K

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  112 2005-10-10 21:19 ./

drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  136 2005-10-10 21:19 ../

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  35K 2005-10-10 21:19 agpgart.ko

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 9.2K 2005-10-10 21:19 ati-agp.ko

You should have modules in both those categories. From your "lsmod"
output I suspect you only have the agpgart module.

It would also be helpful to get the output of "/sbin/lspci -v".
And which motherboard do you have, specifically? Both the
manufacturer and model number, please.

This isn't much help, but searching Google <Linux> and LQ should
give you some more results.

Quote:

Originally posted by dive
Did changing the default depth help with your resolution problem, or is X still refusing to start?
Do you see any errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

It worked :)

No errors right now, but on the other hand Im NOT messing with my system these days :tisk: