Eguchi Satoshi wrote:
Since the paragraph at the beginning of this message is from a message that I wrote in reply to one of your messages, I feel that I should reply to this message.The video drivers compare the vendor ID and the chipset ID to decide if the chip is supported by the driver. The chipset ID of the 830GM is in the list of chips supported by the intel_extreme driver.With screen debug mode, I obtain the following messages: --- intel_extreme: (0) i830GM, revision = 0x4 intel_extreme: publish_devices() intel_extreme: find_device() loaded driver /boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/graphics/intel_extreme Radeon - init_hardware: Version: 5.1.6.0 Radeon - Radeon_CardDetect: no supported devices found S3: init_hardware() - no supported devices vesa: init_hardware() vesa: init_driver() vesa: publish_devices() vesa: find_device() load driver /boot/system/add-ones/kernel/drivers/dev/graphics/vesa intel_extreme: open(name = graphics/intel_extreme_00200) intel_gart: Use GTT addtess fallback. intel_gart: detected 1 MB of stolen memory, aperture size 128 MB, GTT size 128 KB allocate MTRR slot 4, base = e8000000, length = 8000000, type=0x1 AGP: create memory 0x81dd3c48, base 88000000, size 10000, flags 0 AGP: allocation is mode of reserved memory AGP: reserved memory already bound i965 quirk AGP: create memory 0x81dd3c60, base 880ff000, size 1000, flags 2 AGP: allocate 4096 bytes out of 4096 AGP: bind 4096 bytes at 880ff000 intel_extremeintel_extreme_init() completed successfully! intel_extreme: accelerant: intel_extreme.accelerant AGP: create memory 0x81ddf6f0, base 88100000, size 300000, flags 0 AGP: allocate 3145728 bytes out of 3145728 AGP: bind 2145728 bytes at 88100000 --- and the PC gets freezed. What can I do for your debugging?
Although I wrote the ATI and S3 video drivers, I have very little experience with the intel_extreme driver; and do not feel that I can solve this problem - especially since I do not have a computer with an Intel 830GM chip.
Actually, the ATI driver I wrote uses VESA code to set the video mode for laptop computers when connected to the laptop's LCD display since I was never able to get the adapted X windows code to work properly for the laptop video chips when the chip is connected to the laptop's LCD display. Consequently, I feel you should use the VESA video driver on your laptop if it works properly. The VESA driver does not allow the refresh rate to be set, but for the laptop's LCD display it is probably set to the correct refresh rate.
BTW, what is the make and model of your laptop computer. -- Gerald