Hello, I spent this weekend trying to setup my new linux box using debian. Well I ran into a lot of problems biggest of which I haven't been able to solve until now - i810 motherboard which has integrated video and sound. Apparently, there is no built in support for the motherboard from either debian or Xfree86. However, doing a couple of searches I found that it is possible to use the video from the card working. I downloaded the driver from the intel's website which were available in both rpms and the tars. I tried using the tar as per the instructions from the ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/1641/ENG/Release%20Notes.htm however it gave me errors saying it was not a valid file. I tried downloading it again but with no success. Then I tried using the rpms using the alien package. But it gave me errors saying that glibc 2.0 which is required is not installed. I did a dselect and found that all the libc5 and libc6 libraries were installed and there was no other C library that might have helped. I read some other articles which talked about building the kernel instead of taking 3rd party support. I tried to follow those but with no success.
I am new to Linux/Debian and this is my first installation. Hence, I am looking for a document which describes the entire process in details with the actual commands to be typed. Please let me know if anyone knows of any such document or can tell me why I ran into the errors I did while following the instructions from the intel website. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Rahul
