[CentOS] 945GM vga support

Sun Jan 7 03:34:45 UTC 2007
Paul <subsolar at subsolar.com>

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 20:46 -0600, Paul wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 18:28 +0700, beast wrote:
> > Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > > beast wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Is there any way for Centos to support this graphics controller? Im 
> > >> using centos 4.4 and the latest yum update was only  xorg-6.8.2
> > >>     
> > >
> > > According to "system-config-display" there is a driver for the 945
> > > available, at least it shows up in the hardware list of
> > > "system-config-display".
> > >
> > >   
> > Thanks, but it did not work in my case. The error is:
> > 
> > (WW) I810: No matching device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
> > (EE) No devices detected
> > 
> > only vesa driver is working.
> > 
> > After googling it supported by X11R6.9 and up.
> 
> You could try adding PCI:0:2:1 to the device section
> of /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that works ... it may cause X to lock
> up if the I810 driver is not compatible with the device.

I was thinking I shot this off too fast ... you probably could make your
Device section of your xorg.conf look like the following...

Section "Device"
  Identifier   "945GM Video"
  Driver       "i810"
  BusID        "PCI:0:2:1"
EndSection

Paul