I had Mandrake 10.0 on my Dell Inspiron 2500 under X working without problem,
but somehow I disliked look of fonts, so I installed Fedora Core 3.

First install (graphical) went OK, but on first restart I saw garbage.
Second install was text, but as default initlevel is 5, on first restart -> garbage.

I somehow managed to boot it, changed initlevel to 3, and now procedure is
following: Boot to text mode (initlevel 3), log in to text mode, type startx and
then everything works OK. 

Something is evidently broken in boot initialization/agpgart memory allocation. 

If you  upgrade to the later versions of X from the repositories, X does not
exhibit the refresh problem. (The garbage that you see). I boot runlevel 3
mostly but have booted runlevel 5 before with the below in the driver section of
the xorg.conf file.

Option "NoAccel"

There are some different aproaches to resolving or lessening the effects caused
by the refresh problem. The current concept allows DRI to work at higher
resolutions. The latest development fix lowers the maximum resolution where DRI
is active. It does not exhibit the refresh problem on my tests.

I'll try booting runlevel 5 to ensure that the refresh is not related to the
order of initialization between startx and runlevel 5 later.

There have been improvements with the 810/815  card performance using the latest
version of X from Fedora. The bug number is below for reference. You do not need
to mask the problem with adding the option "NoAccel" to the driver section of
xorg.conf any more. You can select regular resolutions that are in-line with how
the driver worked before the problem.
link to redhat bug report below:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132267
Jim

Have you guys tried Fedora Core 4 test 2 to see if it solves your problems ?

To the reporter, and others who experienced this issue before:

Fedora Core 3 current xorg-x11 is 6.8.2 - please upgrade to that as
a minimum, and let us know if the problem is resolved, as I believe
it is.

If the problem still exists in that release, update to FC4test2 as
Alan suggested above, which is a slightly newer build, which will
also be released for FC3 in the next few months, so it will be
good to know if the problem is present still or not.

TIA


Alan:  The problem reported here sounds very very suspiciously like
the issue that has been fixed for some time now, and I'm fairly
certain it is resolved now.  If you don't hear feedback one way or
another in a week or two from anyone, I think it's likely safe
to close this one as "FIXED" in XORG-6_8-branch

TTYL

The problem with the driver refresh is gone now. I am running xorg-x11-6.8.2-26.

There is now a problem with a border around the virtual terminal after X was
launched. Also the text will start on the farmost left edge for about a tenth of
a character. The remaining 90 percent of the character will start on the next
line followed by the other information that is set to the display.

This problem only happens after X was started. For users of the Intel 865, no
text is seen in any virtual terminal. My blue border, shifted text is with an
Intel 815 card.

Regarding comment #6 (by Jim), about corrupted textmode display (colors, border,
wraparound) after leaving X, check out bug 2991 which was opened specifically
about that problem.

Thanks! There is another bug that is similar, but is only for tracking the i810
driver. The problem seems to get worse when in DRI mode. My problem is when not
using DRI. (MGA driver)
There is another bug 3094 that is specifically for tracking the i810 bug. The
bugs are very similar.

Closing. Believed to be fixed in X.Org 6.8.2. Re-open if the problem persists.

hi i have loaded fedora core 3 on my 810 chipset PC and also edited /xorg.conf
with command line ootion "noaccel" linux working better but i am not able to
increase the resolution and the color depth please help me regarding this problem

As you will discover, there are many different cards that use the i810 driver.
There are also a host of causes for low resolution which are not due to the
driver but are either BIOS settings that effect your memory allowed to be used
by the video chip. There is a legacy video setting on Dell computers that is set
as default to use only 1 MB. Change this setting to 8 MB. There is also another
setting which can be set to 64 MB, 128 MB, 256 MB. I set my setting to 128 MB.
You can choose whatever setting you choose. You should be able to get fairly
high resolution modes even at 64 MB.
My guess is you are running a Dell with an 865G with BIOS version A03. If this
wild guess (based on my problem with the above mentioned). Upgrading your BIOS
to version A04 and adjusting your settings in BIOS should clear up your problem.
You should not have to add Option "NoAccel" to your xorg.conf either with the
above mentioned settings and Upgrades to BIOS applied.