From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 29 18:55:14 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2644A16A417 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:55:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp224.math.arizona.edu (smtp224.math.arizona.edu [128.196.224.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0733D13C4AC for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:55:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ImZlr-0002rs-Nu for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:55:52 -0700 Received: from 71-220-132-225.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.132.225] helo=.domain.actdsltmp) by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1ImZlk-0002r0-2x; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:55:24 -0700 Message-ID: <47262C1E.3090204@math.arizona.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:53:18 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Kinsey , questions@freebsd.org References: <4724EF60.7040900@math.arizona.edu> <4726116D.5040904@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4726116D.5040904@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACL-Warn: The HELO/EHLO greeting .domain.actdsltmp is invalid X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) Cc: Subject: Re: i810 driver problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:55:14 -0000 Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Predrag Punosevac wrote: >> I was wondering if anybody encountered any problems with i810 video >> driver on 7.0Beta15 current. >> Namely I did yesterday a fresh installation of an older Pentium III >> machine and was unable to get X going. >> I got Xorg as pkg_add -r by the way and the rest of the system was >> installed from ISO image. >> Yes, I did have >> >> Section "ServerFlags" >> Option "IgnoreAbi" "on" >> EndSection >> >> I looked carefully xorg.conf.new and the listed video driver was >> i810. I did not manually compile that driver as I thought that was >> included into XOrg( at least on two other new computers I use i810 >> driver and it was included into XOrg). >> I tried though to load it manually into kernel by editing load.conf >> file. Sorry I am not enclosing log file as I wiped >> installation. It was very late last night and I thought it will take >> me half an hour to get things working. I end up spending >> 3 hours. > > Stupid question (especially since I dunno much about 7.0 yet), > but you did have agp_load="YES" in loader.conf, and /dev/agpgart > was created successfully? > > Note that I suppose it's possible this isn't necessary in 7.x, > but it has been in the other branches for a Long Time Now(tm). > Yes I did have agp_load="YES". I have done some additional testing last night on that machine. First of all I tried OpenBSD 4.1 and I could start x even without xorg.conf file which is usually true in OpenBSD but the XOrg version is 6.9. Then I did fresh installation of 7.0 and and did pkg_add -r Xorg. I was monkeying around with the xorg.conf.new file and I was able to get going X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. However when I cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf.new and startx the X would start without clients and then would crush within a second. I could just see various colors all over the place. Then I tried to use xorgconfig utility and created xorg.conf file with very conservative options ( I decreased the number of colors) This time when I started x everything was fine for about 3 seconds and then crash again and colors all over the place. (kernel is also frozen) I think I am getting somewhere but I need to play with this thing longer. For some reason when I xorgcfg -textmode I would get reply that the command is not recognized. I will check this again. I will try couple other things. I will also try to install 6.2 stable and see if I can get Xorg going. This is an old DeLL dimension computer and the monitor I was using is Sony trinitron 15in. I will try with my 17in DeLL monitor to see if that makes any difference. >> Then I tried PC-BSD 1.4 which is 6.2 stable from July and everything >> went without a hitch. >> I checked xorg.conf and I saw that the listed driver is >> Xf86-video-intel-2.1.1 >> >> Should I try to install Xf86-video-intel-2.1.1 and then just try to >> hand configure xorg.conf file. >> >> I did notice some discussion yesterday about i810 but I thought it >> was relevant just for upgrading not for the new installation. >> >> Any input or suggestion will be appreciated. >> >> Predrag Punosevac > > Hoping it helps, > > Kevin Kinsey