topic Re: Display driver in 2.1 As in Operating System - Linux

Display driver in 2.1 As

Renjith Nair — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:09:16 GMT

hi all,

I am having an AMD machine in which i had installed 2.1 AS. My kernel version is 2.4.9-e.3. My problem is that o.s is not taking display driver. can anybody tell an exact driver for this version of kernel.

thanks for all in advance

Re: Display driver in 2.1 As

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:59:05 GMT

first at all, I suggest you to take the latest RHEL 2.1 update level - updare 7. (of course, if you can, switch to RHEL 3 or 4).

Regarding display driver - I gues, you're speaking about graphic card driver, right?
In order to recommmend you something, you should publish your graphic card/chip model.

Rgds,
Vitaly

Re: Display driver in 2.1 As

Vipulinux — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:25:44 GMT

Hi

What is ur Monitor and display card (motherboard)

Cheers

Re: Display driver in 2.1 As

Renjith Nair — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:14:46 GMT

My mother board is ASUS BOLENO having I845GV chipset. The problem is that when i do the X configuration utility my make of motherboard is not displaying. I have got a driver cd also. In that cd dripkg utility is there. But if i run that then its giving an error.
The AGPGART module not compiled and KERNEL module not compiled. Can i simply put the module in /usr/src/ and try the command insmod.

please suggest me.
thanks for the response to all

Re: Display driver in 2.1 As

Vipulinux — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:32:20 GMT

Hi
Its better if you compile the kernel with agp support, this could actually solve the issue, once that is done try compling the modules given in the cd.

Cheers

Re: Display driver in 2.1 As

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:38:54 GMT

Intel provides a linux driver
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Filter_Results.aspx?strOSs=39&strTypes=DRV,ARC&ProductID=865&OSFullName=Linux*

you probably need old version

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Filter_Results.aspx?strOSs=39&strTypes=DRV,ARC&ProductID=865&OSFullName=Linux*〈=eng&sType=prev

But again - if it's possible, I suggest to use RHEL4 or CentOS4

Re: Display driver in 2.1 As

Ivan Ferreira — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:31:50 GMT

You can try with the generic VESA driver, works for all (or almost all) video adapters.

redhat-config-xfree --reconfig --set-driver=vesa

Re: Display driver in 2.1 As

Renjith Nair — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:06:49 GMT

but in 2.1AS i didn't find any option such as redhat-config -xfree. The only option is Xconfigurator in setup utility. Then if i try to recompile the kernel, what are the steps required and what precautions i need to take.

please tell me,

thanks for the guidance.

Re: Display driver in 2.1 As

Vipulinux — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:27:58 GMT

Hi
Attached is the rpm if you need:

Re: Display driver in 2.1 As

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:28:51 GMT

As far as I remember, in RHEL 2.1 it was Xconfigurator. You can try to choose something like "generic SVGA" adapter, as Ivan recomends but I don't sure that this will work for i845 chipset.

I don't sure that Intel's driver requests kernel re-compilation. Check Intel's readme. If you really need re-compile kernel, see http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/custom-guide/custom-kernel.html