trouble installing Intel's 845 patch

[BrokenUSMC2003]

I just put Gentoo on my machine (Inspiron 1100) and everything went well until it came time for me to put my graphics card patch on. When I go to run Intel's patch, I get these errors:

makefile:15: /Rules.make: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target '/Rules.make'. Stop
make: Makefile.linux: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target 'Makefile.linux'. Stop

Any idea about how I would go about putting these files on my machine?

[JamminJoeyB]

Is there a README or maybe an install file that tells you how to do it. What about the site you downloaded the patch from and instructions there?

[mdwatts]

Hasn't the Intel 845 been supported by X for some time now?


4.3.0:

Support (accelerated) for the Intel i740 is provided by the "i740" driver, and support for the Intel integrated graphics chipsets i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM and 865G is provided by the "i810" driver. The i810 and i815 chipsets require kernel-level AGP GART support (available on Linux, FreeBSD, and some other BSDs). The 830M and later can be used without AGP GART support, but it is required for full functionality.


http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html

[BrokenUSMC2003]

Intel does not give any help in regard to my specific problem. As for the 845 being supported, there is the options in the kernel menuconfig (which I selected already), but they don't make any difference as far as I have seen. If I can just figure out how to get those files onto my machine I should be good to go...

[mdwatts]

The i810 module/driver mentioned above is what you use for X ( www.xfree86.org ) and has nothing to do with the Intel 845 kernel patch.

What exactly is not working?

[BrokenUSMC2003]

the kernel make menuconfig has support for 845 as well. My machine is all command line right now because the GUI can't work with the current settings.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by BrokenUSMC2003
My machine is all command line right now because the GUI can't work with the current settings.

Ok then... now we (I) know the 845 patch is required.

Exactly how are you patching the kernel? What is the patch name and what commands/directories are you using?

Whenever I apply a kernel patch, I usually use the following.

cd /usr/src/linux

patch -p1 < /path/to/patch_name

[BrokenUSMC2003]

I was looking on Dell's site and found a BIOS update (A29) that "solves the display issue with Linux." The only problem is that the file is .exe... is it possible to run that under Gentoo?

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by BrokenUSMC2003
The only problem is that the file is .exe... is it possible to run that under Gentoo?

You are not dual booting with Windows?

Will the exe fit on a Win9X bootdisk or by itself on another diskette? If the latter, boot with a Win9X bootdisk, swap diskettes and run the exe.

[BrokenUSMC2003]

Nope, I went Linux cold turkey and never looked back. I solved my problem by putting the file on a bootable cd and running it that way. I'm going to do a stage 1 install (everything from source) and see what happens.

[mdwatts]

You're quite welcome. Glad we could help.