Linux...Great if you have tons of free time and a tolerance for unstable APPLICATIONS

winnotlin poked his little head through the XP firewall and said:

You're more than two years out of date, my son.

https:--www.redhat.com-archives-xfree86-list-2003-January-msg00035.html

The Intel i810 video driver in XFree86, is merely *named* "i810". That name is somewhat of a misnomer. A more accurate name would be "intel" as the driver does not support just the Intel i810 video hardware. It supports:

i810, i810e, i815, i815e, i830, i830m, i830G

It does not support the Intel i845 integrated video support because XFree86 4.2.0, which is what shipped in both Red Hat Linux 7.3 and 8.0, does not support the Intel i845 video hardware. Why? Because i845 did not exist when XFree86 4.2.0 was released to the public, and XFree86 did not get support for this until several months ago in CVS. That code was not remotely stable until about 2-3 weeks ago, and still contains a few issues.

David Dawes, the president of XFree86 implemented the support for the Intel i845 graphics, I believe under contract with Intel to do the work (if I understand correctly).

Hell, all you have to do is grep for 810 and 845 and you see a lot of files in the kernel source. Here's just one, which shows definite progress, as noted in the quote above:

usr-src-linux-drivers-video-intelfb-intelfbdrv.c

* 02-2003 - Version 0.7.1: Test on 845G. Acceleration is * disabled * on this platform. (David Dawes) * * 02-2003 - Version 0.7.2: Test on 830M. Acceleration and HW * cursor are disabled on this platform. (David Dawes) * * 02-2003 - Version 0.7.3: Fix 8-bit modes for mobile platforms * (David Dawes) * * 02-2003 - Version 0.7.4: Add checks for FB and FBCONHASCFB* * configured * in the kernel, and add mode bpp verification and default * bpp selection based on which FBCONHASCFB* are configured. * (David Dawes) * * 02-2003 - Version 0.7.5: Add basic package-install scripts * based on the * DRI packaging scripts. (David Dawes) * * 04-2003 - Version 0.7.6: Fix typo that affects builds with * SMP-enabled * kernels. (David Dawes, reported by Anupam). * * 06-2003 - Version 0.7.7: * Fix Makefile.kernel build problem (Tsutomu * Yasuda). * Fix mis-placed #endif (2.4.21 kernel). * * 09-2004 - Version 0.9.0 - by Sylvain Meyer * Port to linux 2.6 kernel fbdev * Fix HW accel and HW cursor on i845G

No, your research ability sucks. But you probably got lying down pat.