Re: fb driver for intel 82915G

From: Gildas Bayard <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:38:47AM +0200
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to use the fb on my (quite) new dell optiplex sx280 computer
> but the nvidiafb does not work (can't claim fb mem region)
> 
> lspci -v tells me that my controler is a intel 82915G.
> looking into /sys/bus/pci I found that the device ID for my card is 0x2782
> => so I checked in kernel sources (driver/video/intelfb/intelfb.h) and
> I noticed that my device ID is not supported
> in the sources Intel 915G is device ID 0x2582
> I guess my intel 915G is a new kind of 915G with slightly different
> caracteristics.
> 
One of the first things to try is to add that pci-id to the existing
driver, and see if it works.

Good luck,
Jurriaan
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