On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Miles O'Neal wrote:

> DMITRY HITS said...
>
> |I think xorg-x11 will work, I checked out their website but I am not sure
> |if the i810 driver in the X11R7.1 has a support for the Intel 845gm chip.
> |The release news said that I have to look through their changelog. BTW,
> |how do I check which version of X11 I have?
>
> Unless you know the specific RPM you need the version
> for, I would suggest just checking the top of the
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log file after running X.  You should
> see lines like:
>
>   X Window System Version 7.1.1
>   Release Date: 12 May 2006
>   X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
>
In my case it says:

X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2


How do I get updated? Yum update?

It says that "No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion"?
Does that mean I am not including relevant repositories? I have
sl-base and sl-errata.


> This is from SL4, so newer versions should have
> a newer version of this (unless some updates I
> did last night pulled in new xorg RPMs).
>
> The xorg RPM package naming can be a bit
> annoying, but you could try
>
>   rpm -qa | grep xorg | grep -v drv
>
> to see everything but the drivers, or leave off
> the final pipe and grep to see those as well.
>
> |That was the reference on the IGUANA page. Can somebody in this news group
> |share their experience with the 3D graphic? Especially with the intell
> |845gm chip. I did look in the archives but did not find much.
>
> Mine has all been with older Matrox boards,
> and newer ATI and nVidia boards, but under
> XFree86.  In all cases, we found much better
> performance by downloading proprietary drivers
> from the chipmakers.  We usually had to tweak
> their custom parameters, and we generally found
> it best to start by running the vendor supplied
> config program as a starting point.
>
> Currently we don't need 3D, and life has been
> much easier. 8^)
>
> -Miles
>