On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 17:18, Kent West wrote:
Bob Tilley (AT&T) wrote:
I plan on moving my Debian installation from my 600MHz machine to my Dell 2.1GHz box.I've had trouble with the 82845G on a Dell Optiplex GX270, but it turned out to actually be a problem with the BIOS version on that computer. It had version A03, which apparently doesn't report to the OS the shared video memory size correctly; downgrading to A01 fixes the problem. The driver that should be used is i810, I believe, but I can only get success with the VESA driver. Again, this is GX270-specific, not 82845G-specific.
Drivers exist for graphics (Intel 82845G) and networking (Broadcom 4401) at the site http://www.lesbell.com.au/Home.nsf/0/16b775253fa0d477ca256d07001cd06c?OpenDocument. The last driver sought is for the ADP sound driver.
A review describes KNOPPIX 3.2 installed on a Dell 2350 being totally functional. However, I want to be l337 by downloading drivers and manually installing Debian + drivers on the Dell.
Can someone help with this task? What sound driver would Knoppix be using?
Robert Tilley
How exactly did you downgrade the bios? My attempts to do that all
failed. I would run the A01 bios flash utility (from dell), and it
_appears_ to work (says all the stuff that makes one think it is
working: "attempting to update bios", etc, and get no failure messages)
but the bios remains unchanged.
Also, how successful are you? IOW, what are the resulting capabilities with respect to colors/resolution?
-davidc
I used this file: http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/GX270A01.EXE
In my searching for a solution, I found a posting somewhere, and the poster offered this file. I grabbed it, hoping it was legit (but for all I know, I'm now 0wn3d at the BIOS level).
I just double-clicked on it from within WindowsXP Pro, expecting it to unzip, and instead it popped up a window offering to flash my BIOS. I allowed it to, rebooted, and there I was looking at an A01 version instead of A03.
I still can't use the i810 driver, but with the VESA driver I can get 1600x1200x24 on a Dell 17" flat-panel. No DRI.
-- Kent
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