es330td******.com wrote:
> Recently I was given 15 circa 2001 Compaq iPaq desktop computers. The
> specs are PIII/733, 256MB, 10GB, CD or DVD. Integrated 10BaseT, video,
> etc. I decided that I would use them to try out several different
> OSes so I could compare them side by side.
>
> XP? No problem.
> Win 2K3? No problem.
>
> Ubuntu 7.1? Install went smoothly.

You mean 7.10?


> Wait a second, how come my screen
> choices only go as high as 800x600? XP is running at 1024x768 so I
> *know* the card supports that resolution. I start doing a little
> research and find out that I have the i810 chipset and out of the box
> Linux won't support this.

As far as I know, it's been supported since 3rd of March 2000, just check your
Xorg documentations.


> Hmm, why not? Windows does.

There are far more hardware that isn't supported by microsoft, if you compare
with the different Linux distributions.


> I go find the
> necessary files to add the driver to my OS. I open up nano and
> edit .config files as instructed. No joy. Even after a reboot I
> still can't go higher than 800x600. F*ck it.

Why reboot? All you do have to do is to restart X11.
Maybe your problem is that you never looked in the Xorg documentation, it do
describe all the driver options for i810.


> I open up google and search for
> i810 Fedora and find the name of an RPM I'm supposed to install. I
> get it and open it and it tells me a dependency failed.

It's not strange, it's like you try to install a driver that depends on
microsoft3.1 on your microsoftVista. If you want to install the right RPM,
then use the one that came with the install media.


> I have yet to go the BSD route on one. We'll see how these go.

*BSD uses Xorg too, so if you don't manage to use the i810 driver in Linux,
you won't be able to do that in BSD.

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//Aho