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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:21:56 -0700
From:      "Kevin Downey" <redchin@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: beryl/agpgart/i810/Intel 950 GMA
Message-ID:  <1d3ed48c0706141121u1997a58bodb81c1e3cd617588@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46716F58.3060800@cs.okstate.edu>
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On 6/14/07, Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> wrote:
> Written by Kevin Downey on 06/14/07 11:32>>
> > On 6/14/07, Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> wrote:
> >> Written by Eduardo Viruena Silva on 06/13/07 21:07>>
> >> >
> >> > Hello Guys,
> >> >
> >> > I have an Intel 950 GMA video card,
> >> > built-in in my computer's motherboard.
> >> > My motherboard is D945NT.
> >> >
> >> > I installed FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE, and cvsupdated
> >> > it to FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE-p5.
> >> >
> >> > Installed my ports and cvsupdated them.
> >> >
> >> > I found "beryl"  in /usr/ports/x11-wm, it
> >> > seemed to depend on Xorg-7.2
> >> >
> >> > I successfully upgrade Xorg-6.9 to Xorg-7.2.
> >> > I also compiled beryl, everything seems to be ok.
> >> >
> >> > ..and I have tried to make it work, I give up.
> >> >
> >> > The problem seems to be that X is
> >> > trying to find /dev/agpgart, according
> >> > to my /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
> >> >
> >> > (II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: Intel Corporation
> >> > (II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r) 82945G Chipset Family
> >> > Graphics Controller
> >> > (II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Hardware Version 0.0
> >> > (II) I810(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 945G
> >> > (--) I810(0): Chipset: "945G"
> >> > (--) I810(0): Linear framebuffer at 0x40000000
> >> > (--) I810(0): IO registers at addr 0x50100000
> >> > (==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0x50100000,0x80000) was already
> >> clear
> >> > (II) I810(0): 2 display pipes available.
> >> > (II) I810(0): detected 7932 kB stolen memory.
> >> > (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory)
> >> > (WW) I810(0): /dev/agpgart is either not available, or no memory is
> >> > available
> >> > for allocation.  Using pre-allocated memory only.
> >> > (--) I810(0): Pre-allocated VideoRAM: 7932 kByte
> >> >
> >> > I have seen beryl working on Gentoo Linux,
> >> > /dev/agpgart is present in an identical system,
> >> > and it seems to me that it is not a problem
> >> > of memory allocation.
> >> >
> >> > so...
> >> >
> >> > What do I have to do to create /dev/agpgart?
> >> >
> >> > My kernel has
> >> >
> >> >     device     agp
> >> >
> >> > present.
> >> >
> >> > Thank you in advance.
> >> >
> >> >          Eduardo.
> >> >
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> >>
> >> It looks to me like you don't have working dri/drm. You have to have
> >> direct rendering working before you can get beryl working. AFAIK, drm
> >> support for your chipset is not available in 6.1-RELEASE, and the drm
> >> module is what provides the agpgart device.
> >>
> >> sys/dev/drm/drm_pciids.h on 6-STABLE from about February shows this:
> >>
> >> #define i915_PCI_IDS \
> >>          {0x8086, 0x3577, 0, "Intel i830M GMCH"}, \
> >>          {0x8086, 0x2562, 0, "Intel i845G GMCH"}, \
> >>          {0x8086, 0x3582, 0, "Intel i852GM/i855GM GMCH"}, \
> >>          {0x8086, 0x2572, 0, "Intel i865G GMCH"}, \
> >>          {0x8086, 0x2582, 0, "Intel i915G"}, \
> >>          {0x8086, 0x2592, 0, "Intel i915GM"}, \
> >>          {0x8086, 0x2772, 0, "Intel i945G"}, \
> >>          {0x8086, 0x27A2, 0, "Intel i945GM"}, \
> >>          {0, 0, 0, NULL}
> >>
> >> So you have to have the i915 module loaded to use this chipset. Though
> >> the i915 driver was ported for 6.1-RELEASE there was no Makefile
> >> included, and it never really worked until after 6.2-RELEASE.
> >> Personally, I'm tracking 6-STABLE and I've had drm working with an i845G
> >>   since February of this year when anholt MFC'd a load of i915 drm
> >> changes. See this log for more info:
> >
> > http://anholt.livejournal.com/34566.html
> > in an email on may 19th anholt indicated that there is no working
> > support for the 965G
> >
>
> Thanks for the link to anholt's journal. This doesn't affect the 945G,
> though, right?
>

Truth is best determined by examination of reality. If your 945G is
working then I would say it is unaffected.

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