Linux and Intel 810 chipset problem

[kunalkaul]

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I have been terying to install Linus on my PC for about a week now....the prob is that after i boot from the CDROM it starts forking precesses till it recognises the chipset...then it ejects the cdrom and kills all the processes.

Please let me know how can i install Linux (Red Hat 6.2) on a Intel 810 chipset. I came to know that there is a patch available on the Intel support site. I have downloaded the patch too but the problem is that the patch has to be compiled into the Linux Operating System itself. That again i cannot do as i do not have Linux.

I would relly appriciate a response....Thanx

 

[eesterle]

You need to install a newer version of Red Hat like 7.0. I think the i810 isn't a very Linux friendly chipset. I have installed Red hat 7 on it though.

 

[calbars]

I have 2 machines (1Us) with the i810 chipset. I had no problem installing redhat 6.2 doing a text base installation. Once installed, i grabbed the agpgart.o sources and the XFree86 SVGA server at intel and compiled a new kernel. There is a pdf doc. available on intel site describing all the steps necessary to get X going. Also check out what redhat has to say about installing RH6.2 on an i810 mobo.

Basically, if you say
linux text mem=127M
at the installation prompt (replace 127 with your ram size - 1mb), it should go fine.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2 also play nicely with i810 systems.

-SUO