Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:49:16 -0400 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel GMA x4500 / xorg help Message-ID: <1223088557.1619.10.camel@wombat.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <20081004020711.GE61867@egr.msu.edu> References: <20080911083305.61E63CF0AC@f06.poczta.interia.pl> <5fb5cdcd0809211837y275ddeb2xcb062b0e66b0670a@mail.gmail.com> <1222048105.1697.16.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <1222804879.1740.31.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <20081004020711.GE61867@egr.msu.edu>
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--=-LDt+YAzEniJaYfZe3lGj Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 22:07 -0400, Adam McDougall wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:01:18PM -0400, Robert Noland wrote: >=20 > On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 21:48 -0400, Robert Noland wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 10:37 +0900, Tony Sim wrote: > > > Yes, i've read those reviews. I also know that the current port tr= ee seems > > > to have the latest version of the driver. I've also read, however,= that > > > drivers in Freebsd, by default, have disabled support for Intel's l= ater > > > graphics cards, and this seems to be in agreement in the descriptio= n of the > > > port.... and furthermore, my laptop, which has the said graphic ca= rd, > > > constantly crashes whenever xorg tries to deal with the graphics ca= rd. By > > > this i mean the entire freebsd crashes... > > >=20 > > > So since it apparently works with linux and xorg, the driver is the= re... the > > > question is, does it work in freebsd? > >=20 > > I am not currently aware of any such limitation. That said, I probab= ly > > need to sync up our agp_i810 with a few new pci id's. We run the sam= e > > drm code that linux does, though I'm still not exactly clear on what > > features they have actually shipped with a release. All Intel cards = are > > "AGP" and therefore have to use agp_i810 which I suppose I am > > responsible for now. Send me pci id's and I can check on it... > =20 > I have a patch for this now. It is located at > http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/agp_i810-g33-g45.patch > =20 > I need testers with g33 and g45 series chips. > =20 > robert. > =20 > Tested on 7.1 from today, previously this did not detect but now it does: >=20 > vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xef98-0xef9f mem 0xf6c00000-0xf6f= fffff,0xe0000000-0xefffffff=20 > irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 > agp0: <Intel GM45 SVGA controller> on vgapci0 > agp0: detected 32252k stolen memory > agp0: aperture size is 256M > agp0: AGP_I810_PGTBL_CTL: 00000001 > agp0: AGP_I855_GCC1: 0x50 > agp0: AGP_I915_MSAC: 0x00 > agp0: Aperture resource size: 268435456 bytes >=20 > Thanks! A few times I've seen X lock up and exit (I don't have the error > handy) but it has only been when I was using fluxbox. I'm currently usin= g > twm while gnome compiles but I kindof assume that problem has more to do > with the intel video driver rather than agp? If you are on 7.1 then it can't be drm. The chip that you have is the one that apparently behaves like a 965, but the output looks reasonable. I have patches for RELENG_7 that should enable drm as well. See my "latest drm patches" thread on freebsd-x11@. Both of these are now committed to HEAD. robert. --=-LDt+YAzEniJaYfZe3lGj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkjm2awACgkQM4TrQ4qfROM1aACdGuA2pbIpeCVUda4GzTvPQ2xP S58An1uPUH8Ja6csbxBcatKLWhx34Uxg =bTXg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LDt+YAzEniJaYfZe3lGj--
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