[CLUE-Tech] Gateway 400SP notebook/ 2.5.72 kernel

[Jef Barnhart]

Try this.

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 12:49, David Anselmi wrote:
> Dan Harris wrote:
> > I just got my shiny new Gateway 400SP ( 2.2GHZ Celeron, 512MB, 40gig).  
> > It was too good of a deal to pass up.
> > 
> > After toying with this sucker the better part of the dark hours, I'm 
> > still stuck trying to get X to run.  It looks like it has some 
> > bleeding-edge chipset that nobody seems to know.  Seems like I always 
> > get stumped on bleeding-edge stuff.
> > 
> > So, to troubleshoot, I thought I'd start with lspci.  lspci reports that 
> > it's an Intel VGA Unknown device.  Google couldn't find me anything 
> > about the chipset for my exact model.  I tried kernel 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 
> > hoping that someone had included support for it.  No luck...
> 
> My advice is don't bother with 2.5 kernels.  Gateway's site isn't any 
> better than lspci (I think that's very funny).
> 
> But Intel's site makes me think you have an Intel 852 (GM rather than 
> GME).  So the XFree86 site says you want the i810 driver (xfree 4.3.0) 
> and kernel support for AGP GART.  Give that a try.
> 
> I don't have a box with X handy to tell you how to get that driver, but 
> ask if you need to.

i810 

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "i810"
        VendorName  "Intel"
        BoardName   "?"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

> 
> Dave

Jef