[Intel-gfx] How to build the driver for old OS (RHEL4.2)

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 10:35 +0530, Scott wrote:
> Hi friends,
>  
> I am having a Intel box with 945GSE chipset.
> And I have a legacy application which runs on RHEL4.2 / GNOME.
> The standard (in-built) Intel driver is working fine for GNOME
> But I found the (dual) display is not operating successfully.
>
> Please advise how to re-build the driver 'cause I couldn't find the
> rpm or make files from the forum.

The short answer is, you don't.  Consider running that application on a
different machine than the one you're displaying on, possibly in a
virtual machine.  X supports TCP for a reason.  RHEL 5.5 includes
primitive dualhead support for your chip, and (when it comes out) RHEL
6.0 will include modern, runtime-configurable dualhead.

(The i810 driver in RHEL4.x supports through the i915 desktop and mobile
and i945 desktop chips, but not any 945 mobile variants like the 945GSE,
and nothing newer like 965 or Core i5.  In other words, you're not even
running with the intel driver there, you're running with vesa.)

- ajax

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