Graphics Card & NIC Driver

[littledrop]

Distro Slackware 12

1.

My motherboard is
Mobile Intel(R) 945GM Express Chipset Family


I want to install graphics card driver. Please help.

I have windows driver.


I would also like to install chipset driver if possible.


2.

How to configure to load module on boot?
I want to load intel pro ve 100 network card driver.

I have to run modprobe e100 on login and its very irritating.
I didn't found e100 in /etc/rc.d/modules.

Please help.

[aliov]

Distro Slackware 12

1.

My motherboard is
Mobile Intel(R) 945GM Express Chipset Family


I want to install graphics card driver. Please help.

I have windows driver.


I would also like to install chipset driver if possible.


2.

How to configure to load module on boot?
I want to load intel pro ve 100 network card driver.

I have to run modprobe e100 on login and its very irritating.
I didn't found e100 in /etc/rc.d/modules.

Please help.

For the Graphic Card, if you have a intel vga that's great, only use the i810 driver in the xorg.conf , edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace the vesa under the device section with i810 ,this drivers support for intel 915/915GM/935/945 , and many others.

For the chipset driver , you don't have to play with it, usually the kernel load the correct setting for your chipset

for the network , even if there is no entry in the rc.modules put it by hand, in fact not all the modules are listen.
also if you have a wifi card, make the rc.wireless executable chmod +x rc.wireless.

Hope this helps

[littledrop]

Thanks. It worked.

I wanna reduce the brightness, so I wen to display properties and se the brighness. It works but when I exit that settings box , display is back to lot of brightness.

Here is the settings in xorg.conf

Gamma 0.40 0.40 0.40 # created by KGamma


Any idea?


DefaultDepth 32 doesn't work with my card.
Why? Does it needs very high end graphics card?

[aliov]

Please could you post the screen section ! in you xorg.conf file ,and also what you receive when changing to 32 depth the X doesn't start ?

for the Gamma, please tell me what do you want to do exactly ?

Regards.

[littledrop]

That problem is solved. I ahve 2 more problems.

I will post new thread if I can get solution in thsi thread.

1. I get this error when I run startx for non-root user.
call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directoris fail?) , check your installation.


2. when I set default depth =32 I get this on startx

(EE) intel(0): Given depth (32) is not supported by I830 driver

I am using i810 driver.


Thanks.

[r0k3t]

that is because 32 is actually 24... Set
DefaultDepth = 24 and you will be in good shape.

[aliov]

That problem is solved. I ahve 2 more problems.

I will post new thread if I can get solution in thsi thread.

1. I get this error when I run startx for non-root user.
call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directoris fail?) , check your installation.


2. when I set default depth =32 I get this on startx

(EE) intel(0): Given depth (32) is not supported by I830 driver

I am using i810 driver.


Thanks.

try to use use simply intel instead of i810

For the non root users , how did you add those user , they have a login shell and home ?

[littledrop]

1. Defaut Depth=32 still not working. I am using 24

2. home directories are there.


I have one more problem.
I was following this guide http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/I...l_on_Slackware

Now I can't start X.

I ran the optional steps to remove Xorg6.9.

What to do?

[aliov]

I'm lost , because you said from the beginning it's Slackware 12.0 , wish comes by default with Xorg 7.3 and you don't have to change your X in order to use Beryl/compiz these tow require Modular Xorg (7.0 and later ) , this wiki it's for Slackware 11.0 and i never follow it because the driver build for i810 doesn't seems to be okay , because i have some trouble with it with my intel graphic card .

For your problem don't try to remove the Xorg ! since it's a pain to reinstall it again simply use intel instaed of i810 .

For your default depht i guess there is something wrong in your X configuration , i don't have any trouble related to this under Slackware 12.0 and i'm using beryl !

If you are planning to use it the best way it's to compile it from Source code , because there is a lot of dependencies that you can't know them if you install them from the standard Slac packages .

Regards.

[littledrop]

Default Depth=32 is not working so I have moved back to 24.

Now My main problem is beryl.

Today I did lot of things.
I begin with this guide.

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/I...l_on_Slackware

Deleted X and can't start the X after I log off.
After that I dont know what happened as I keep on trying so many things to get the X working, I can't start KDE as well.

Then I fixed that don't know how it hapened but its working.

Now I can't login with non-root user as I told earlier.

Then I moved on to this guide.
'+'

I downloaded all the packages, and make entries in xorg.conf though I used kororaa xorg.conf file to make changes as per the article.

Now I can't run compiz not even its settings manager.

Can you give me steps to install beryl?

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Do you know repository for slackpkg (slackware 12)?
I will try beryl with it.