Installed Grub4Dos frugal to 32Gb CF card in IDE adapter in Fujitsu S6230 laptop (1.6GHz Pentium M, 2Gb RAM, ipw2200 wireless, intel 855GM video)
Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller
Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
oem: Intel(r)852GM/852GME/855GM/855GME Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r)852GM/852GME/855GM/855GME Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
# dmesg | grep drm
[ 16.685674] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 17.534964] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 128M
[ 17.534972] [drm] Replacing VGA console driver
[ 17.573709] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[ 17.573715] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 17.617058] [drm:i9xx_set_fifo_underrun_reporting] *ERROR* pipe A underrun
[ 17.679814] [drm] initialized overlay support
[ 17.704414] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20140905 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 17.773109] [drm:i9xx_set_fifo_underrun_reporting] *ERROR* pipe A underrun
[ 17.863762] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 18.861965] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
[ 38.628437] [drm:i9xx_check_fifo_underruns] *ERROR* pipe B underrun
[ 42.921874] [drm:i9xx_check_fifo_underruns] *ERROR* pipe B underrun
[ 43.073396] [drm:i9xx_set_fifo_underrun_reporting] *ERROR* pipe A underrun
# dmesg | grep i915
[ 17.704414] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20140905 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 18.861965] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
[ 18.861972] i915 0000:00:02.0: registered panic notifier
# export vblank_mode=0
# glxgears
libGL error: Version 4 or later of flush extension not found
libGL error: failed to load driver: i915
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
3248 frames in 5.0 seconds = 649.534 FPS
3241 frames in 5.0 seconds = 648.090 FPS
3238 frames in 5.0 seconds = 647.495 FPS
3234 frames in 5.0 seconds = 646.749 FPS
Let me call this 3 for 3 here in intel land
Forcepae works. Same intel setup errors as previously seen on the 855GM but video resolution, sound, and WPA2 connection with Frisbee are all good. Intel driver and direct rendering using the intel MESA driver are reported in Hardinfo with very good acceleration and FPS scores for this class laptop. Full sys-info attached for completeness only. Basically this was a smooth OOTB experience on all the machines I have. CPU use at idle and subjective speed are great on all 3. Both ALPS and synaptics touchpads are usable with no fiddling except to turn off the tap-to-click.
Thanks,
Pups currently in kennel :D Older LxPupSc and X-slacko-4.4 for my users; LxPupSc, LxPupSc64 and upupEF for me. All good pups indeed, and all running savefiles for look'n'feel only. Browsers, etc. solely from SFS.