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Subject: Re: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE support for more
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On 2014-05-09 16:25 (GMT-0400) Brandon composed:

> I have an old laptop with on board 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Inte=
grated Graphics Device (rev 03) which only has 640x480 available using the =
xf86-video-intel v2.99.911 driver with xorg-server 1.15.1. =C2 Additionally=
, I cannot use an external monitor attached to the onboard VGA out which I =
know is good since I can use it under another OS. =C2 Is this old chipset s=
till supported?

The 845G has consistently been a thorn in developers and users' sides since=
 new, but =

it still works here in post-14.x versions from Fedora, Mandriva and openSUS=
E at =

least. Here's a log from a freshly updated Rawhide system on a 1600x1200 CR=
T:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.0.log-gx260-i845G-fc21-1405

Note that it's not from a laptop, so only has one real video output. And, i=
t is =

configured via xorg.conf, not automagic.
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