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

[Dan Harris]

Thanks David, I'll give that a shot.  I did try the i810 driver but I'm 
still on XFree 4.2.  Maybe that's the problem?

-Dan

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.
>
> Dave
>
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