Patrick, Thanks, this has been helpful. But my point was that if the kernel supported AGPGART (which it does say while booting up and does function normally thereafter) then SAX2 should understand that, if it has a problem with the chipset(very likey) then it should come up with a different error message instead of an AGPGART error. That's the reason why I'd say SAX2 needs improvement, atleast in error handling. Regards Sanjay

-----Original Message----- From: PL O'Smith [mailto:penguin0601@earthlink.net] Sent: 29 December 2002 19:52 To: sanjay Subject: Re: [SLE] Intel 810 Chipset and SUSE 8.1 Pro[Solved]

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====================== Sanjay, I suspect that if you compiled the latest CVS version of XFree86, you would get overall better results than the kernel could provide you. Since your problem is actually a "graphics" problem and not a system problem, the kernel update will only give you better motherboard support. There has been much discussion on the Intel graphics chipsets (built in graphics) on the XFree86 list. The chipsets are have been quite problematic i810, i845, etc and your best solution is to disable that in your bios and get a good graphics card. I think that motherboard still provides a 2x or 4x agp slot, which is what agpgart is used to activate, not a chipset graphics. You get what you get with builtin graphics that uses system ram for video ram. There is no problem with sax2 or the kernel, although the newer kernels will better support the chipset. Which is what I think you experienced with the kernel update, better Intel chipset support, not better graphics support, as that is handled by Xwindows and XFree86.

Hope that helps clear some things up for you.

Patrick

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