[plug] Big Gun needed for X battle

[Tim Bowden]

John Usher (Maptek) wrote:
> G'day...
>  
> The last i810 device I tried to get working had the same dramas. I 
> discovered that the frame buffer device was being used, so I just used 
> the X frame buffer version (XF86_fbdev?) and that worked fine.

May have to try that if all else fails.

>  
> Can't remember more than that at this stage - just that the fb stuff got 
> it working!
>  
> I think this was on a knoppix install? Something which actually used X 
> for installation then refused to have it working.
>  
> ...John...
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* Tim Bowden [mailto:bowden at iinet.net.au]
>     *Sent:* Wed 1/10/2003 5:09 PM
>     *To:* plug at plug.linux.org.au
>     *Cc:*
>     *Subject:* [plug] Big Gun needed for X battle
> 
>     When I do startx I get the following errors:
> 
>     (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:0)
>     found
>     (EE) No devices detected.
> 
Knoppix 3.2 works fine with the i810 driver.  It's using a slightly 
later release of XFree86.  Have to check which version when I get home. 
  Perhaps I may need to upgrade.

Tim Bowden


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