Intel chipset support

orestes · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 21

I am a total linux n00b. Just installed gentoo 1.4 rc4 this past week, and the learning process is going very well. Installation went smooth as silk except for one problem. I had thought that it was running kind of sluggish. I emerged XChat for irc and with it I installed a sysinfo script. When i posted my sys info its showing my GF4 ti4200 as a PCI card....not AGP. I had this same problem with WinXP so I had to run a Chipset Software installation utility that somehow told the OS to see the card as AGP.

#1. where in KDE does it say what chipset it has identified?

#2. how do i install chipset support for my motherboard, hoping that this is the problem?

my sys stats are:
P4 2.4 533FSB
Asus P4P800 w/ intel 865PE chipset
512 PC2700
GF4 ti4200 128MB AGP8x video
2-80GB HDD

thanks in advance for the help...another windows user might be successfully converted :lol:

Woofles · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 4:25 pm Post subject:

Uhhh, well if you run glxgears, do you get over 500? If you do that means your Graphics card is fine and you don't need to change it....

#1. Settings, Control Panel, Peripherals, Display.

#2. It shouldn't matter at all....
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MasterX · Veteran Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 1165

The best way to know what chipset is identified is to run dmesg or better dmesg |more.

For chipset support you need to do some changes in the kernel 's config file.
Go to /usr/src/linux and type make menuconfig.
Then go character devices and select /dev/agpgart This will enable the agp support that you need
My M/B has Intel 845 chipset which is supported by the kernel. In order for the kernel to support the chipset I selected the next line which is
Intel 440LX/BX/GX and I815/I820/I830M/I830MP/I840/I845/I850/I860 support

As you can see Intel 865 is not supported but you can give it a try

I forgot to mention that the version of the kernel is 2.4.21

Good Luck

orestes · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 21

i have agpgart enabled already...checked it just to make sure. Linux isnt seeing the chipset....or the vidcard... :sigh: I looked in control panel system settings and the video card space is blank. Just when i thought I was finally done with Windows......

xcham · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 12:19 am Post subject:

I'm having many problems with my Radeon 9200 + 865PE board. using gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5 but I don't think that the board's AGP controller is supported even in the vanilla-prepatch sources (at the time of writing)...