Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:59:25 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i810 driver problem Message-ID: <4726116D.5040904@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4724EF60.7040900@math.arizona.edu> References: <4724EF60.7040900@math.arizona.edu>
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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). > 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 -- Your computer account is overdrawn. Please reauthorize.
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