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#1 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008, 02:59 PM

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For the life of me I have tried many distros of Linux and always something
comes up. Just obtained a Dell Dimension 2400 and thought I would give it
a try again. I tried installing Slackware 9.0 using the vesa option and
also the Generic i810 option - my BIOS is set to give me 8MB of video
memory - but I cannot boot into anything greater than 256 colors at
640x480. Running the same program in Virtual PC on Windoze XP Professional
(?) Slackware works great - boots into 24-bit and the sound is easy enough
(figure out modprobe sb). So I am left with a very good copy of Slackware
running very nicely on my Desktop - accessing DSL through VPC networking -
but cannot get it to natively run! Any thoughts or articles about the i845
chip?

thanks

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#2 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008, 03:00 PM

Docker <Docker@me.com> wrote in message news:<Xns9573AF1873F5DDockermecom@208.33.61.211>.. .
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> For the life of me I have tried many distros of Linux and always something
> comes up.
....
> but cannot get it to natively run! Any thoughts or articles about the i845
> chip?

I have a PC with an Intel MB with the i845 chip.
I don't remember exactly but I had some problems
with this MB and Slackware 9.0 (smth with APM).
Since Slackware 9.1, everything is perfect.

Mikhail

#3 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008, 03:00 PM

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:12:56 -0500, Docker wrote:

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> For the life of me I have tried many distros of Linux and always something
> comes up. Just obtained a Dell Dimension 2400 and thought I would give it
> a try again. I tried installing Slackware 9.0 using the vesa option and
> also the Generic i810 option - my BIOS is set to give me 8MB of video
> memory - but I cannot boot into anything greater than 256 colors at
> 640x480. Running the same program in Virtual PC on Windoze XP Professional
> (?) Slackware works great - boots into 24-bit and the sound is easy enough
> (figure out modprobe sb). So I am left with a very good copy of Slackware
> running very nicely on my Desktop - accessing DSL through VPC networking -
> but cannot get it to natively run! Any thoughts or articles about the i845
> chip?

I've got something described as 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated
Graphics Device, when loading X. It runs with the i810 driver, without
any problems. I even get direct rendering, as per glxinfo:

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 845G 20021115 x86/MMX+/SSE2

This is with Slackware 10.0, but it ran with Slackware 9.0 as well.

#4 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008, 03:01 PM

muxaul@lenta.ru (Mikhail Zotov) wrote in
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> Docker <Docker@me.com> wrote in message
> news:<Xns9573AF1873F5DDockermecom@208.33.61.211>.. .
>> *** post for FREE via your newsreader at post.newsfeed.com ***
>>
>> For the life of me I have tried many distros of Linux and always
>> something comes up.
> ...
>> but cannot get it to natively run! Any thoughts or articles about
>> the i845 chip?
>
> I have a PC with an Intel MB with the i845 chip.
> I don't remember exactly but I had some problems
> with this MB and Slackware 9.0 (smth with APM).
> Since Slackware 9.1, everything is perfect.
>
> Mikhail
>

I'll burn a new disk and try out 9.1 and/or 10.

#5 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008, 03:01 PM

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> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:12:56 -0500, Docker wrote:
>
>> *** post for FREE via your newsreader at post.newsfeed.com ***
>>
>> For the life of me I have tried many distros of Linux and always
>> something comes up. Just obtained a Dell Dimension 2400 and thought
>> I would give it a try again. I tried installing Slackware 9.0 using
>> the vesa option and also the Generic i810 option - my BIOS is set to
>> give me 8MB of video memory - but I cannot boot into anything greater
>> than 256 colors at 640x480. Running the same program in Virtual PC
>> on Windoze XP Professional (?) Slackware works great - boots into
>> 24-bit and the sound is easy enough (figure out modprobe sb). So I
>> am left with a very good copy of Slackware running very nicely on my
>> Desktop - accessing DSL through VPC networking - but cannot get it to
>> natively run! Any thoughts or articles about the i845 chip?
>
> I've got something described as 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset
> Integrated
> Graphics Device, when loading X. It runs with the i810 driver, without
> any problems. I even get direct rendering, as per glxinfo:
>
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 845G 20021115
> x86/MMX+/SSE2
>
> This is with Slackware 10.0, but it ran with Slackware 9.0 as well.
>
>
>

I'll burn a new disk and try out 10. I think I am slowly learning how
things work - first distro was the two-floppy disk set based on slackware
4.0 - BasicLinux. Hope it works - looks real nice on Virtual PC in full-
screen mode.

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