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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Help me choose an OS for my old intel 845 board Post 302571485 by Mooches on Monday 7th of November 2011 01:32:32 PM

11-07-2011

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Originally Posted by Corona688

"Lock up" is still a bit vague unfortunately. It tells you something bad's happening in the kernel, but doesn't tell you what.

If it really is video problems, using the VESA driver instead of trying to use a native Intel one may stop the freezing.

Also, did you ever try any kernel boot options, like "irqpoll"? I had a board that would lock up Linux quickly because the BIOS gave it faulty IRQ assignments. "irqpoll" helped at the cost of some performance. Also worth a try are "noapic" and "noacpi".

Hi Corona688, I don't know how to describe it any better at the moment as I don't have those distros set up so I can look up exact error codes and system logs, but it's a well known issue if you search through google, and even trying workarounds suggested by techies and developers, like using nomodeset and noapic and more hideous commands and hacking the system to use vesa or install patches like Bryan'svideopatch, or some such similarly named thing, doesn't result in a stable system. I'll try to find the link to the i845g graphics bug reports on the web, but don't think that would be helpful as there doesn't seem to be any working fix for it. But still, I'm wondering if there are alternative systems, maybe some unix or beos or bsd or something which would be compatible with the hardware. I'm asking as I'd like to know if these OS's would work (because linux distros won't) before I venture forth and download a big iso!!

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VESA(4) 						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							   VESA(4)

NAME

       vesa - Generic VESA video driver

SYNOPSIS

       Section "Device"
	 Identifier "devname"
	 Driver "vesa"
	 ...
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION

       vesa  is an Xorg driver for generic VESA video cards.  It can drive most VESA-compatible video cards, but only makes use of the basic stan-
       dard VESA core that is common to these cards.  The driver supports depths 8, 15 16 and 24.

SUPPORTED HARDWARE

       The vesa driver supports most VESA-compatible video cards.  There are some known exceptions, and those should be listed here.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

       Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details.	This section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.

       The driver auto-detects the presence of VESA-compatible hardware.  The ChipSet name may optionally be specified in the config file "Device"
       section, and will override the auto-detection:

	   "vesa"

       The following driver Options are supported:

       Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
	      Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer.  Default: on.

	      This option is recommended for performance reasons.

       Option "ModeSetClearScreen" "boolean"
	      Clear the screen on mode set. Some BIOSes seem to be broken in the sense that the newly set video mode is bogus if they are asked to
	      clear the screen during mode setting. If you experience problems try to turn this option off. Default: on.

SEE ALSO

       Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)

AUTHORS

       Authors include: Paulo Ce'sar Pereira de Andrade.

X Version 11						       xf86-video-vesa 2.3.2							   VESA(4)