lunar on a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop

[Moritz Heiber]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:40:20 -0700
"Richard Pyne" <rpyne at kinfolk.org> wrote:

> Only about 30 times. I have found no mention of the need for the 
> /sys mount point that is needed by sysfs.

Indeed. I'm lame .. and sorry ;-)

Anyway, Jamie added a POST_INSTALL to the sysfsutils to make sure the
mountpoint exists.

> Again, about 15 times, and all I can succeed at doing is getting 
> it so X won't run. According to all the information I can find, 
> I should be using the i810 driver (it includes support for the 
> 915GM chip), but every time I configure it, it get an error 
> message:
> 
> (EE) I810(0): No valid FB address in PCI config space
> 
> and/or:
> 
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration
> 
> In reading the log after bringing up X using the automatic 
> configuration, It looks like when it autoconfigures it uses the 
> VESA driver, which is the fallback for the video chip.
> 
> The Intel 915GM supports two separate monitors, the internal one 
> on the laptop, and an external one through either a 15 pin or an 
> S-video connection. The internal TFT monitor is capable of a 
> maximum resolution of 1280 x 800 (which is what I want to use), 
> and the external is capable of up to 1920 x 1200. The two 
> sections show up in lspci at PCI:0:2:0 and PCI:0:2:1.

Mind sharing the config file and your lspci output? :-)

I hope I'm going to be able to help you out.

Regards,

Moritz
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