Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:36:34 +0100 From: Vince Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: goodredhat@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on the Intel 945G chipset Message-ID: <48CEAB32.8050500@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <397519.89773.qm@web51304.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <397519.89773.qm@web51304.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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manish jain wrote: > > Hi, > > Till now I have been using FreeBSD 6.2 on a Tomato motherboard with an Intel 810 chipset and never had any problems configuring xorg with the i810 driver. > > I am now planning to upgrade to a new system with an Intel 945G chipset which has an integrated GMA 850 graphics core. > > Does FreeBSD 6.2 support the Intel 945G chipset ? If yes, what video driver would I need to use while configuring xorg ? > > If not, can you please suggest some other fairly recent Intel chipset which would work well with FreeBSD 6.2 and xorg ? > I dont remember if I tried on 6.x but using the intel driver (xf86-video-intel) on 7.x worked very well for me in a Intel 945gm chipset. Its certainly supported on 6.x (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_pciids.h?rev=1.2.2.4;content-type=text%2Fplain;only_with_tag=RELENG_6 and look for i945) Vince > Thanks > Manish Jain > > > > From Chandigarh to Chennai - find friends all over India. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/citygroups/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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