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nejb

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September 2nd, 2003 20:00

Optiplex GX270 incompatible with Linux?

I am trying to get a rather standard Optiplex GX270 with an Intel 82865G driver to work with Redhat 9. The problem is getting a decent screen resolution. After testing and searching the web, I did not manage to find a solution. I found the following thread however:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69720&highlight=Dell

It seems like I am not the only one having problems with Optiplex. Any suggestions (other than buying a new graphics card)?

Jonas

tom99

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September 10th, 2003 10:00

@nejb wrote:
I am trying to get a rather standard Optiplex GX270 with an Intel 82865G driver to work with Redhat 9. The problem is getting a decent screen resolution. After testing and searching the web, I did not manage to find a solution. I found the following thread however:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69720&highlight=Dell

It seems like I am not the only one having problems with Optiplex. Any suggestions (other than buying a new graphics card)?

Jonas



I'm running linux on a GX270, 1600x1200,24bit. You need to do the following:

1. Get Intel i830 drivers:
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/linux/

2. Store i830.o and agpgart.o somewhere convenient

3. Add the following to /etc/modules:
i830
agpgart

4. Add the following to /etc/modules.conf
path=/wherever/you/put/your/intel/drivers

5. Change /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so that you have at least:
Section "Device"
...
Driver "i810"
...

Section "Screen"
...
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
...

6. Reboot, go to your BIOS screen and change memory allocated to
your graphics card from 1MB to 8MB.

Enjoy!

dpc527

1 Message

October 13th, 2003 13:00

I've tried all the suggestions I can find and still cannot get a resolution better than 10x7...The most complete instructions I found regarding setting the module path, etc were located in this forum, but I must be missing something.

Any further advice would be greatly appreciated.

Dana

nejb

2 Posts

October 13th, 2003 14:00

After investigating a bit more, my guess is that the relevant bios fix is in the Dell bios update A03. Unfortunately, this update does not exist yet for GX270 (at least not in Europe). Since I find configuration slightly less fun than going to the dentist, I think I will wait until it is available.

Jonas

loverboyroy2000

2 Posts

October 14th, 2003 12:00

What you need to do is download the latest xfree86 install (linux-ix86-glibc23) and after installation change the BIOS setting "Integrated Devices (LegacySelect Options) >> Onboard Video Buffer to 8.

 

My issue is that I cannot seem to get my sound card working and vmware to acknowledge that this is a valid dell computer.

ub4b

2 Posts

October 16th, 2003 08:00

@nejb wrote:
I am trying to get a rather standard Optiplex GX270 with an Intel 82865G driver to work with Redhat 9. The problem is getting a decent screen resolution. After testing and searching the web, I did not manage to find a solution. I found the following thread however:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69720&highlight=Dell

It seems like I am not the only one having problems with Optiplex. Any suggestions (other than buying a new graphics card)?

Jonas



I downloaded the driver from the intel site (dripkg-1.0-4) as suggested in the first post but it failed to compile the agpgart and drm modules on Redhat 9.0 with all packages kept up2date. The error also occurs with a non-smp kernel. 


In file included from /lib/modules/2.4.20-20.9smp/build/include/linux/vmalloc.h:8,
                 from agpgart_fe.c:37:
/lib/modules/2.4.20-20.9smp/build/include/linux/highmem.h: In function `bh_kmap':
/lib/modules/2.4.20-20.9smp/build/include/linux/highmem.h:20: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic
agpgart_fe.c: In function `agp_mmap':
agpgart_fe.c:663: warning: passing arg 1 of `remap_page_range_Rsmp_f94c6c0e' makes pointer from integer without a cast
agpgart_fe.c:663: incompatible type for argument 4 of `remap_page_range_Rsmp_f94c6c0e'
agpgart_fe.c:663: too few arguments to function `remap_page_range_Rsmp_f94c6c0e'
agpgart_fe.c:679: warning: passing arg 1 of `remap_page_range_Rsmp_f94c6c0e' makes pointer from integer without a cast
agpgart_fe.c:679: incompatible type for argument 4 of `remap_page_range_Rsmp_f94c6c0e'
agpgart_fe.c:679: too few arguments to function `remap_page_range_Rsmp_f94c6c0e'
make: *** [agpgart_fe.o] Error 1


Note that the default agpgart and drm modules from the kernel-smp-2.4.20-20.9 package load (e.g. insmod) but the X server just crashes.

The loaded modules are :

/lib/modules/2.4.20-20.9smp/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8smp/kernel/drivers/char/drm/i810.o

The error when starting X : 


XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.3.0-2)
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-3bigmem i686 [ELF] 
Build Date: 27 February 2003
Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com
 
        Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.20-20.9smp (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 11:32:15 EDT 2003 
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Oct 16 11:41:25 2003
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"

   *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
   *** be the reason for the server aborting.

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting


When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.

Aborted




How would you debug/solve this issue ?

loverboyroy2000

2 Posts

October 16th, 2003 19:00

Before you go ahead and do anything else I am going to request that you read the info contained here http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Install2.html, run your updating again, then we move from there.

ub4b

2 Posts

October 17th, 2003 15:00

Thanks for the hint, installing the binaries directly from XFree solved the issue, but my fonts now look wrong. Some characters are fatter than others, e.g. C,W,O,M ... . The anti-aliasing has gone wrong and some color combinations with small fonts are just unreadable.

To illustrate the issue, the old machine (an old Dimension P2) looks like this :

http://daemon.xs4all.be/~poelfr/screenshot_old.png

while the new machine (GX270) looks like

http://daemon.xs4all.be/~poelfr/screenshot_new.png

both machines are running RH9 and have identical fontdirs & fontserver config files, so the issue is really with the rendering in the Xserver.

LuisIgnacio

1 Message

April 12th, 2004 23:00

Try Fedora Core 1

Patch with: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/linux/fc1_intel_video_fix.htm

It works well!

bay_wack

1 Message

October 5th, 2004 14:00

I am running a Dell Optiplex Gx270 with the Intel 82865G and Redhat 9.  The fix that worked for me is much easier than the fixes listed below.  All you have to do is boot your Dell machine up, Press F2 to enter BIOS and then under Integrated Devices, change onboard video buffer from 1MB to 8MB.  Boot up into Redhat and that should fix the problem.  Any questions please feel free to let me know.  Thanks


Baywack

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