[Openchrome-users] Integrated K8M890 does not work.

[Benno Schulenberg]

maurizio wrote:
> Hi all, it is my first message on this mailing list. First of all
> excuse me if I post here,

You are welcome to post.  But do NOT post the same message in two 
different places.  The mailing list and forums are interconnected, 
messages to the one get automatically posted to the other.  Better 
use the mailing list only.

> I have a MSI motherboard, model K9VGM-V with a AMD 64 processor.
> On the board there is an integrated K8M890 graphic card.

Just to get the terminology right: it is not a separate card, it is 
an integrated chip, what they call an IGP -- an integrated graphics 
processor.

> As you can see, the graphic card is not recognized by the system:
>
> dmesg | grep -e agp -e drm
> [   21.256421] agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0
> [   21.261208] agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
> [   21.866172] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
> [  242.034180] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> [  243.436351] [drm] Initialized via 2.11.1 20070202 on minor 0

Hmm, strange.

> This is probably because the card is attached to the mainboard
> through a "bridge" and the system cannot access directly to it.

You mean the graphics thing is actually a separate card?  You can 
pull it out of the motherboard?

> I'm attaching my xorg.conf file and the log of the X server.

Those files are not from a run with the openchrome driver.  In your 
xorg.conf, replace Driver "via" with Driver "openchrome" in the 
Section "Device".  Then show your Xorg.0.log again.

Please do not tar the file up, gzip and attach it separately.

Benno