Hi,

I'm a new member of this group. I have the follwoing problem.
I have a Dell laptop D620 1.66Mhz core duo processor with
945GM chipset for integrated video card. I installed FC6 32 bit on it. During installation I was not able to use the video display and it kept going into the text mode. After install I edited my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and changed the
"i810" driver to "vesa" and the display seemed to work fine at 1024x768 resolution. It was running fine for couple of days. But all of a sudden it does not boot and the video display freezes with speckled dots and arbitrary colors.
I have tried almost everything I could think of and also what people have suggested on the web but it does not work.

Here are the things I have tried.
1) booting from Linux rescue and changing the inittab to set init3 instead of 5

2) I tried changing "vesa" driver string to i810 but no use.

3) I downloaded 915resolution program from the web and changed the resolution to "1280x800", "1024x768"
and bunch of other modes. also 8,16 and 24 bits but no use. it appears that the videocard never works with i810 driver it always says nousable modes found or some such error message. However it does not freeze the display. But using the vesa driver freezes the display.

4) I'm beginning to think somehow that the vesa driver must have gotten corrupted and I need to re-install it but cannot find it. can somebody please point me how to use
yum and grab the vesa driver for the intel 945GM chipset and I'll give that a shot too.

5) i'm relatively new to linux and I have run out of options at this point- HELP !!! is the only thing I can look forward to .

thank you

It is me again, if after 1 hr on THIS forum I have 0 replies, does this mean I'm s...... ?

I managed to get an error message instead of the freeze by hitting the backspace button twice !!
It still freezes my Display screen and then goes back to the prompt saying

(WW) VESA(0): failed to set up write-combining range(0xc0000000,0x7b0000)
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable

and then dumps the backtrace.

does anybody have a clue as to what this might be ?

I installed fglrx driver but I'm not sure it works with intel 945 GM chipset.

this is my third post, come on guys , I really need some help here.

thanks

can somebody pleaseeeeeeeeeee post their WORKING /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for intel mobile 945 GM chipset and i810 driver or vesa driver(if they have figured out how to use it)

I would definitely uninstall the fglrx driver, as that is for ATI adapters and not used for the Intel adapters. You might also want to post your xorg.conf file so someone using a similar system might be able compare yours with theirs.

Also check and see if there are any writeups on the Linix for laptops or tuxmobile sites. Often users will include their xorg.conf file for others trying to use the same laptop.

Bob

here is my xorg.conf file.

I have tried both i810 and vesa drivers with different error messages

with i810:
(WW) i810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
Synaptics deviceInit called
SynapticsCtrl called
.....

Backtrace:
........


Fatal server error:
caught signal 4. Server aborting

XIO: fatal IO error 104(Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining

with vesa:

(WW) VESA(0): failed to set up write-combining range(0xc0000000,0x7b0000)
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable

and then dumps the backtrace.



# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "FingerHigh" "15"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "i810"
BusId "0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
mode 0666
EndSection