Problem using GMA900 in RedHAt 2.4.2-2

[tofose]

Hi all Linux lovers!
I have a new hardware, a Advantec PCM-9588 board. This board has a graphic Intel 910 GMLE chip set. I use this board in an embedded system and has to change processor board as the previus is not longer available to buy. The previus board used a Cyrix 5530 for graphic. I run a very old RedHat kernel, 2.4.2-2, on this system. That means I have great problems to upgrade to a newer xf86, supporting Intel GMA900. I would very much appreciate any suggestion how I can solve my problem without having to change to a newer Linux kernel, as it would lead to a lot of work and redesigns of my software application. Is this on the whole possible, what is your opinion?

Best regards.
Tord

[Rubberman]

Have you tried to configure your x-windows system to use the generic vesa driver? That should work I would think.

[tofose]

Hi Rubberman, thank you for your answer. Now I have tried VESA in my XF86Config. The problem seems to by that program tries to figure out what chip I use an can't do that. How can I avoid that?

I got this error message on my screen:
(--) SVGA: PCI: Intel Unknown chipset (0x2592) rev 4, Memory @ 0xfdf00000, 0xd0000000, I/O @ 0xff00

If I activate the row: chipset "generic" in the XF86Config, then I got the error message
SVGA: 'generic' is an invalid chipset

And finally if I set Device "vga16" instead of "svga" I got this error message:
You must provide a "Screen" section in XF86Config for at
least one of the following graphics drivers: svga

This is my XF86Config:
#************************************************* **************
# Graphics device section
# ************************************************** *************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic VESA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
# Chipset "generic"
EndSection

#************************************************* ***************
# Screen sections
#************************************************* ***************

# The Colour SVGA server

Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
# Driver "vga16"
# Use Device "Generic VESA" for Standard svga 800x600
# Device "Cyrix MediaGX"
Device "Generic VESA"
Monitor "Generic Laptop Display Panel 800x600"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
#************************************************* ***************

[Rubberman]

Have you looked on the Intel web site for a driver? Anyway, in your "Screen" section, set driver to "vesa", not "svga".

[tofose]

I try with Driver "vesa". When I try to start the server XF86_SVGA

I got the error message.
Driver "vesa"
Not a recognized driver name

Yes I have hade a look at Intels web. I tried to install their package for GMA900 but I gave up. It was as these Russian dolls, when you open one it's a new one inside. First it complained that i had no pkg-config. When I had installed pkg-config it complained that I hade no package xorg-server. When I tried to install xorg-server it complaind I had no xproto. When I tried to install xproto it was somthing else that did not work....

I have also tried to run a XF86_VGA16 server then it is a lib file, libfont.so.1, that is missing. And yes it's correct I cant find that file either.

[Rubberman]

Yes. I expect that the Intel drivers are for newer distributions that use the xorg x-server instead of the XFree one you have. That's why you are getting all this cruft trying to install the driver. I could suggest that you get the xorg sources and build the entire thing from scratch for your board. BTW, is there any reason why you cannot use a newer kernel? Sure, you would need to build it yourself, but it would likely resolve a lot of issues.