Hi,
I have a msi 915g mb that has a gma900 graphics accelerator on
board. Everything works ok under slack 10.1 but I decided to see if
the intel driver would make things better. (Yes, that's not a good
idea.)
After chasing down the source code for kernel 2.6.12.3 and putting
the .config file in there I still get a boatload of error messages
when I run the install script. The .log file is way too long to
include in this message but the general idea is that the attempted
make of various object files failed due to, among other things,
inability to find header files that look to me to be right where they
should be.
Has anybody had any luck with this?
Thanks, jwc

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jwc wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a msi 915g mb that has a gma900 graphics accelerator on
> board. Everything works ok under slack 10.1 but I decided to see if
> the intel driver would make things better. (Yes, that's not a good
> idea.)
> After chasing down the source code for kernel 2.6.12.3 and putting
> the .config file in there I still get a boatload of error messages
> when I run the install script. The .log file is way too long to
> include in this message but the general idea is that the attempted
> make of various object files failed due to, among other things,
> inability to find header files that look to me to be right where they
> should be.
> Has anybody had any luck with this?
> Thanks, jwc
>

You need to go here (http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/) first and
download at least the latest version of common and i915 and run those
scripts. Then go here (http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/) and download
915resolution and install it properly. Once you got those two things done,
you can switch to the Intel driver (oddly, by using "i810" in your
xorg.conf).