topic Re: display drivers in Operating System - Linux

display drivers

Chakravarthi — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:35:27 GMT

Hi all,

i have installed 2.2.24 kernel on p4 machine, i couldnt bring up network but the display is not coming up, Display card is Intel(R) 82865G graphics Controller. I tried download and install drivers from intel site. but they are for 2.4 and higher kernerls.

can some one point me to display drivers for 865 chipset for 2.2 kernels.

thanks
chakri

Re: display drivers

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:22:21 GMT

That Intel video chipset should be auto detetcted by the 2.2.x kernel. Does the video work at all?

http://www.driverzone.com

You may want to go to http://www.intel.com and communicate this need to them, they probably have archive copies of the drivers.

SEP

Re: display drivers

Johannes Krackowizer_1 — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 02:44:20 GMT

hi,

could you update to 2.4 or 2.6 kernel? if there is no problem upgrade to newer kernels.

best regards,

johannes

Re: display drivers

Chakravarthi — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:01:27 GMT

No, i have to work on 2.2 kernel only

Re: display drivers

Johannes Krackowizer_1 — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:51:13 GMT

hi,

does the display come up in textmode or does textmode also not work?

Re: display drivers

Stuart Browne — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:20:14 GMT

If you are going to be forced to use a 2.2 series kernel, then expect issues like this when using newer hardware.

Simply put, it's *TOO OLD*. The newer graphics hardware which uses kernel-level drivers just don't work with older kernels. The effort required to back-port the changes isn't worth it given that 2.2 series is 2 whole release series behind the 8-ball (2.4, and now the 2.6 series).

Put bluntly: You will not get this video card to work well in a GUI environment with a 2.2 series kernel. Either find an old PCI card that will work, or live without a GUI on this machine.