Re: Intel 810 chipset (was Re: linux-hardware)

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 07:13:47 -0400

Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > I suspect this mailing list is a bit of a more generic one. The one I can
> > > tell that you shouldn't buy an Asus MEW board because the on-board sound
> > > card (AD1881) isn't supported but also that the on-board intel 810 graphics
> > > chipset is not supported.
> >
> > The 810 has sound on the chipset. I guess the 1881 is the AC97 codec ?
> > Right now Intel's docs for the 810 almost give enough info for the audio,
> > don't cover the video sufficiently and point blank refuse to cover the random
> > number generator.
>
> Intel funded development of the 810 video driver, which has been
> released to the XFree86 team for inclusion in 3.3.6. Until then you can
> download the XFCom X server for the 810 chipset at
> ftp://ftp.precisioninsight.com/pub/precsio/XFCom

Sorry, typo: ftp://ftp.precisioninsight.com/pub/precisio/XFCom/

Also note that apparently the 810 driver can't use more than 1MB of
memory without the AGPGART kernel module. (available from glx cvs if
nowhere else)

Jeff

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