Garbage display once X started

[rwcitek]

I have a system based on the Intel i810 chipset, using the onboard video. When booting the 3.9 CD, there are a couple of issues:

1. (minor) I get the message "You passed an undefined mode number."
This is not a big problem; I type 0 and things continue on.

Try booting with boot: knoppix vga=0 Specifying vga=0 is the same as typing in 0 later.

2. (major) X fails to start. It gives me a garbage display.
(Typing ctrl-alt-F2 [or F1/etc] does work okay to get me to a
alternate virtual text console.)

Try booting with boot: knoppix vga=0 3. Then when you are at the shell prompt, type:

modprobe intel_agp
init 5

You may also want to try these other values for vga=: 769, 771, 773, 775. You may also want to try these values for xmodule=: i810, fbdev. For more cheatcodes.

Perhaps a bug fix is in order?

From what I understand, Klaus is aware of this issue with agp drivers not loading. IIRC, the error is in the script /etc/init.d/xsession:
less -iNX +/'should not' /etc/init.d/xsession

Let us know how things go. Since I don't have an Intel graphics card, I'm particularly curious to know if this works:
boot: knoppix vga=0 xmodule=i810

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org/