Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:30:23 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Rob <europax@home.com> Cc: Greg Laslett <g_laslett@motherwell.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X support for Intel 82815 graphics on 815 motherboard Message-ID: <20010727093022.E25185@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <3B608970.CBCF61F9@home.com>; from europax@home.com on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:19:44PM -0700 References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010726114953.00a779e0@exchange.pth.motherwell.com.au> <20010726163442.A80367@itouchnz.itouch> <3B608970.CBCF61F9@home.com>
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:19:44PM -0700, Rob wrote:
> Thanks for the info Jonathan, I too have 815, but on my new Viao
> FX290. I've seen conflicting instructions for getting it working.
> Specifically, I saw on the XFree86 mailing lists, that the agpgart.ko
> module was needed, but it is only in -CURRENT. I have the source for
> it, but haven't been able to figure out how to compile it in.
The agp.ko kernel module comes on the base system; IIRC at least since
FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE. To make it load on bootup, you have to put the
following line into /boot/loader.conf:
agp_load="YES"
If you build XFree86-4.1.0, invocations to the i810 driver in
/etc/X11/XF86Config will make use of it.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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