[Sheflug] Redhat Enterprise 2.1 and graphics card compatability

[Mark Wrangham <mark [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all.

I'm installing Redhat Enterprise Linux 2.1 on a Small from factor HP 
Compaq D530 and the onboard graphics card is not recognised.
I've already installed Redhat 8 on this machine and there were no 
problems then.  The manufacturers spec says that the graphics card is an
"Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (integrated with Intel 865G chipset)"

This chipset is autoprobed on Redhat 8 as a 4MB VESA card and it works 
flawlessly at 16bit 1024*768.

When I tried to install Redhat Enterprise 2.1 on this machine the 
graphics card was not detected at all, and there is no VESA driver 
available.  I've tried a handful of the available drivers using 
XConfigurator but none of them have worked at all so far.

Also.  The anaconda installer provides a very nice way to select 
graphics cards during the install, but I can't find anything apart from 
XConfigurator that will let me change the graphics card configuration 
after the install.  Is there a way to run the anaconda utility without 
actually doing an install, or is there a nice utility for graphics 
configuration that I don't know about?

So any ideas?  Has anyone else been able to get this graphics chipset 
working? 

Thanks in advance


Mark




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