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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Help me choose an OS for my old intel 845 board Post 302571535 by Corona688 on Monday 7th of November 2011 03:52:31 PM

11-07-2011

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If you're not willing to try and get Linux working I have no advice for you. Linux has unusually broad hardware compatibility for a non-Windows OS, whose fanbase has pressured many manufacturers into partially supporting their products and gotten many hardware devices whose manufacturers don't even acknowledge their existence to work anyway.

I'm not aware of a BSD or Solaris distribution made to appeal to home-users. These kind of server OSes consider a gui firmly optional.

Two more relevant facts:
1) Intel graphics, especially older Intel graphics, isn't the pits just in Linux, it's the pits in most respects in general.
2) Intel tries to be pretty decent about Linux support for their graphics. They don't always succeed, but they try, and the community usually manages to kludge their efforts into working. Other alternative OSes may not be so lucky.

...suggests to me that the chipset is a lemon in general and you may be better off putting in a cheap nvidia or something.

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i915

i915(7d)							      Devices								  i915(7d)

NAME

       i915 - DRI-compliant kernel driver providing graphic hardware acceleration support

DESCRIPTION

       The  i915  driver is a Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI)- compliant kernel driver that provides graphics hardware acceleration support.
       DRI is a framework for coordinating OS kernel, 3D graphics hardware, X window  system and OpenGL applications.

       The i915 driver currently supports the Intel i845, i865, i915, i945, i965 and G33 series integrated graphics controllers.

FILES

       /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/i915

	   32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

       /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/amd64/i915

	   64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWdrmr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |x86			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       /usr/openwin/share/man/man1/Xserver.1

       /usr/X11/share/man/man1/Xorg.1

       /usr/openwin/share/man/man1/Xsun.1

       /usr/openwin/share/man/man5/X11.5

       attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    15 Jan 2008 							  i915(7d)