From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Mon 27 Aug 2001 - 15:22:02 IST
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:00:13PM +0100, Mel mentioned:
> The motherboard has an i815 chipset but are you sure the graphics card is
> the same? To be honest, I haven't heard of any i8xx graphics card except
> the i810 graphics integrated board but my knowledge of new hardward is
> pretty minimal. Are you sure that it isn't the i810 graphics card you
> have? If it is, you need to have the agpgart module installed and then
> the i810 X server will work
All of the recent intel boards use the same chipset - it's just a
slightly reworked i740 chip, that's in i810/i815/i820/i840 and a few other
chipsets.
Most modern distributions should detect & work fine. As long as you have
an AGP-aware kernel.
Kate
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