hi,

I installed Redhat 9.0 on my laptop yesterday, but with some problem about display mode.

Laptop: Dell Inspiron 1150
Display card: Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME controller
Driver: got from intel website

I follow the menu to install the driver and got the following problem

+ rm -f Makefile
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/intel/dripkg/drm'
depmod: cannot read ELF header from /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/old.gdg.o.old:remove
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/agp/old.agpgart.o.old-20040917172704
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/agp/old.agpgart.o.old-20040917172850
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/agp/old.agpgart.o.old-20040918004824
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/agp/old.agpgart.o.old-20040918022811
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/old.gdg.o.old-20040917172704
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/old.gdg.o.old-20040917172850
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/old.gdg.o.old-20040918004824
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/old.gdg.o.old-20040918022811
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: unresolved symbol remap_page_range
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: unresolved symbol __wake_up
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: unresolved symbol pci_free_consistent
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: unresolved symbol create_proc_entry
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: unresolved symbol remove_wait_queue
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: unresolved symbol pci_alloc_consistent
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: unresolved symbol remove_proc_entry
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: unresolved symbol fasync_helper
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: unresolved symbol add_wait_queue
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: unresolved symbol mem_map
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: unresolved symbol vmalloc_to_page
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/gdg.o: insmod gdg failed

The display mode can only be set to 800*600. I tried to set it to 1024*768, but the system set it back to 800*600.

I just don't know how to solve it. Anyone can help me?

Thanks in advance!
ywang

Hi ... saw your message thought you might want to see http://www.willamowius.de/linux-inspiron-1150.html that webpage...

basically i think you need to go and update your bios version.

Good luck...

Thanks for your info!

I have solved the problem finally.

My steps to do it as followings:

1. install Redhat 9.0;
2. connect to redhat update server and update to the latest kernel;
3. start the linux into text mode and install the display driver from intel;
4. run redhad-x86-config to set the display mode;
5. change it to graph mode, you will get the right resolution 1024*768
6. install the network driver from broadcom.

Then, everything is ok!

Any similar questions, I may help you.

Thanks!
Yong