On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Michiel Boland wrote: > Hi. I'm not having much luck with the 'intel' video driver on i386 > -CURRENT. Whereas it would panic the box earlier when starting X (see > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-February/082955.html), > it now just completely hangs the machine. > > No DDB, nothing. > > FWIW hardware is a dell optiplex 756. Kernel is GENERIC with one added > option (BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER). Graphics card is reported as 'Q963/Q965 > Integrated Graphics Controller' by pciconf. > > The i810 driver works fine, but from what I gather from the > xorg-drivers port, this driver is being phased out in favour of the > intel driver. Is that correct? If so, then some work is needed > somewhere. I had/have similar problems with the Intel video driver with 7-STABLE. Newer versions of the driver tend to fair better. v2.3.0 of the driver works the best for me. OpenGL applications may lock (xscreensaver at least does) from time to time, yet the system is still accessible remotely. Amusingly, the xscreensaver "hack" only needs a SIGCONT to restore access to the system. v2.3.1 will consistently lock the system. To install it, I just updated the port version to 2.3.0 and ran make makesum before installing. No other changes to the port are necessary. Obviously, this is not a true fix, but it does help. Sean -- scf_at_FreeBSD.orgReceived on Tue Jun 03 2008 - 16:30:21 UTC
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