Re: Intel GMA x4500 / xorg help

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 21:48 -0400, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 10:37 +0900, Tony Sim wrote:
> > Yes, i've read those reviews.  I also know that the current port tree seems
> > to have the latest version of the driver.  I've also read, however, that
> > drivers in Freebsd, by default, have disabled support for Intel's later
> > graphics cards, and this seems to be in agreement in the description of the
> > port....  and furthermore, my laptop, which has the said graphic card,
> > constantly crashes whenever xorg tries to deal with the graphics card.  By
> > this i mean the entire freebsd crashes...
> > 
> > So since it apparently works with linux and xorg, the driver is there... the
> > question is, does it work in freebsd?
> 
> I am not currently aware of any such limitation.  That said, I probably
> need to sync up our agp_i810 with a few new pci id's.  We run the same
> drm code that linux does, though I'm still not exactly clear on what
> features they have actually shipped with a release.  All Intel cards are
> "AGP" and therefore have to use agp_i810 which I suppose I am
> responsible for now.  Send me pci id's and I can check on it...

I have a patch for this now.  It is located at
http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/agp_i810-g33-g45.patch

I need testers with g33 and g45 series chips.

robert.

> robert.
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:33 PM, vermaden <vermaden_at_interia.pl> wrote:
> > 
> > > > "Tony Sim" <y2s1982 at gmail.com> writes:
> > > > > Is there a driver for GMA x4500 graphics card in Freebsd?
> > > >
> > > > I think the question you *meant* to ask is "does X.org support the GMA
> > > > X4500 series".  The answer is "ask on an X.org mailing list".
> > > >
> > > > DES
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Intel X4500 is already supported by both Xorg and intel open driver:
> > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUzMw
> > >
> > > It has been even already benched:
> > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_x4500hd
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > vermaden
> > >
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