xorg, Intel 915GM Driver (i810_drv.o) and dri => No screens found

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 20:25 +0100, Christoph Tavan wrote:
> On Friday 09 December 2005 15:53, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:34 +0100, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> > > Christoph Tavan wrote:
> > > > The only way I found out was to install xorg-x11-6.8.2 (no matter
> > > > whether with or without the patch) und then replace the
> > > > self-compiled /usr/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o with the binary
> > > > driver from alan hourihane from
> > > > http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/intel.html .
> > >
> > > Which brings me to the question if the patches from Alan's driver will
> > > make it into the official driver? I am also very dependant on Alan's
> > > driver at the moment, for several Dell/Samsung X1 incompatibilities.
> >
> > The one big change my driver has is the ForceBIOS code, which won't be
> > going into 6.9/7.0 because of the feature freeze.
> 
> Is that the stuff for enabling resolutions like 1400x1050 or 1280x800?! Like
>   Option "ForceBIOS" "1280x1024=1400x1050"
> Well, we still have the little hack "855resolution" which has the same effect. 
> It would be much more interesting to have the rest (such as dri) working.

DRI should be working fine without any of my changes. If it isn't log a
report or send more details to the list.

Alan.