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Date:      Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:02:17 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        lists@peter.de.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel G33 & FreeBSD 7.x
Message-ID:  <200808182002.18125.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20080818090646.421f7ecd@dilbert.office.centralnic.com>
References:  <200808181716.36906.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20080818090646.421f7ecd@dilbert.office.centralnic.com>

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On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Oliver Peter wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:16:36 +0930
>
> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> > Does anyone have a G33 chipset system working in 7.x?
>
> I have a working Q35 chipset (which is using the same driver)
> under latest -STABLE.
>
> 	FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Sat Aug 16 17:36:46 BST 2008
>
> > I have a 6.3 install here and it isn't working with that so I have
> > been merging things from HEAD but it still doesn't work.
>
> It has been in the source tree since 2007:
> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#FreeBSD
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2007-July/080677.html
>
> ... and was finally enabled in -STABLE about two weeks ago:
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2008-August/093604.html
>
> dmesg[1] is attached.

Ta.
I MFC'd the AGP driver although quite possibly I stuffed something up.=20
It does detect OK but X won't start with the ports intel driver.

I tried the GIT one but I can't get that to compile due to an old libdrm=20
in ports :(

> > It would be worth switching to 7.x if it worked there though :)
>
> It is worth it anyway! :-) (zfs, zfs, zfs...)

:)

> Unfortunately, the  drm  module does not recognize my chipset
> (so I don't have DRI support under X.ORG) - could be a problem with
> my hardware.  I would like to discuss that later this week on the
> list with more information.

I'd be very happy with accelerated 2D at this stage :)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
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