Hmmm...

You may have conflicting AGP drivers.

If there is an AGP or NvAGP entry under devices in the X86Config-4 file you may have to comment it out.

Also cat the /etc/modules.conf

It should have an entry which includes intel-agp

You might also try posting the problem on www.mandrakeusers.org. I'm pretty sure that site's open for registration by anybody at all, and sometimes I do find useful information in their forums.

It sounds like the problem is NOT with the display!

(Your CRT should have worked...)

Rather the 865 is not always properly recognized by the kernel.

You may have to help things along a bit...

Log in as root, and type

service dm stop

then

lsmod | grep agp

Post the results...

You should see

agpgart and intel-agp

If these do not appear try

modprobe intel-agp

And THEN try XFdrake again.

See if you can get to the "rainbow" screen.



The on board Intel graphics chip (which is not very good btw) needs the i810fb driver.

In turn the i810fb driver doesn't know how to deal with the newer motherboard chipsets due to slight changes in the PCI ID's.

No luck still.

When I run lsmod | grep agp I get the following:

size used by
intel-agp 19584 1
agpgart 1 intel-agp



What do you think?

What "video card" have you selected with XFdrake?

I'm beginning to doubt that the kernel version you are running has any support for that integrated graphics chip.

I am selecting the Intel 865 video card. I haven't had much progress at all after hours of troubleshooting.

Hmm. Have you looked in the XF86Config file to make sure the Intel 865 card is the one actually specified under the "Devices" section?

(Once I found firsthand that Mandrake occasionally, though not always, fails to update configuration files, I've remained suspicious of such things.)

Yes, it is specified there.

I just went into the control panel under "hardware" and looked at the video card selection. Under Intel, there's a "740 (generic)" choice. It might be worth a try to see how it tests out.

I am new with Mandrake and i have the same problem with my dell computer. I checked the intel web site, and it said they had drivers for the 865 graphics card for SuSe and for Red Hat, but not for Mandrake. Does anybody know where to get a driver for Mandrake?

In my Mdk 10.1OE control panel, under hardware, if I select my card and then select "run configure tool" I get a list of cards that includes the Intel 865. Is that the one you have selected? If so you might try "custom" or some other one as an experiment--can't hurt anything, as it reverts to what you actually have working in 12 seconds if the display fails to show the "rainbow" pattern that indicates successful operation.

I have selected the correct card, and i have also tried other options. No luck.

Take a look at:

http://mandrakeusers.org/lofiversion...hp/t19648.html

and see if it suggests any tactics.

No luck on the custom settings. I have tried them all for the resolution. I believe I did the same for the graphics card but will check to be sure.

This is what I have found on another post. I've tries the BIOS change and that has worked for Suse for me. Mandrake test will be next...
Hey all, the dell onboard video controller uses system memory when running in GUI. Unfortunately, it only reports itself as having 1Mb memory by default.

If you go into the BIOS and select a default of 8Mb in the viseo memory settings it will work in 1024x768 mode (no virtual desktop)

Regards,

Pauliephonic
aRTee
Nov 3 2004, 06:12 PM
Not completely, you need the 855wrapper or the 855patch, go here:
http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html
Take your time and read it.
It's not hard to do at all.

I just tested today with 2 different Dell Optiplex systems, on one I had gotten Mandrakelinux 10.0 running via DrakTermServ, and it needed the patch, on the second 10.1 is now installed with the patch - the first one got a bios update and now no longer needs the patch.

The other one does need that patch, which we had handy (luckily), so it was less than 5 minutes to get going at 1600x1200 resolution.

Intel graphics are actually the last ones that have 3d accelleration with fully open source drivers. Don't bitch about them, they're showing the way. That Dell makes systems with crappy BIOSes is their problem - and the bios update has fixed it, so there.