Display driver in 2.1 As

[Renjith Nair]

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

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

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

[Vipulinux]

Hi

What is ur Monitor and display card (motherboard)

Cheers

[Renjith Nair]

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

[Vipulinux]

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

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

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

[Ivan Ferreira]

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

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

[Renjith Nair]

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.

[Vipulinux]

Hi
Attached is the rpm if you need:

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

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