begin Rahul Agarwal quotation: > 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.
You don't mention which Debian branch you're using -- I suspect it must be stable (Potato), because you shouldn't be having this problem with the testing or unstable branches. I went through all this about a year ago when trying to get an i810-based machine to work with Debian. At the same time, though, I noticed that the stable branch is very out of date, and didn't have recent versions of many software packages that I wanted to use. After failing to get the Intel i810 xserver for XFree86 3.3 to work, I ended up solving both problems by migrating to the testing branch (Woody), which has XFree86 4, which supports the i810 out of the box. (Actually, I have since migrated to the unstable branch, Sid, which I find to be quite functional 99% of the time -- every so often someone uploads a bad package, but it's pretty rare.) This isn't quite the answer you were hoping for, of course, but I think it's the best option. Craig
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