Re: laptop Dell M4400 with -CURRENT?

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 16:17 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Tuesday, April 28, 2009 a las 10:36:27AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió:
> 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm planning to order a new laptop and got an offer for a Dell M4400
> > with the following main details:
> > 
> >    Precision M4400 : Intel Core 2 Extreme X9100 (3.06GHz,1066MHz,6MB)
> >    Base Option : 512MB Discrete nVidia FX770M Graphics Card (with 512MB dedicated memory)
> >    Palmrest : UPEK Swipe Fingerprint Reader Biometric
> >    Display : 15.4in Widescreen WUXGA (1920X1200) with Dual CCFL
> >    Camera : Integrated 0.3 Mega Pixel Camera with Microphone for 2CCFL LCD Panel
> >    LCD Back Cover : 2CCFL
> >    Memory : 4096MB (2x2048) 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel
> >    disk : 250GB Serial ATA (7200 1/min) Festplatte (Free-Fall-Sensor)
> >    Optical Drive : Roxio Creator 9.0 Software and Media Included
> >    Optisches Laufwerk : 8x DVD+/-RW Laufwerk ohne Software
> >    Battery : Primary 9-cell 85 W/HR LI-ION  451-10589
> >    Battery : Additional 6-Cell 56 W/HR LI-ION  451-10590
> >    Wireless : EMEA Dell Wireless 1510 (802.11a/b/g/n 2X3) MiniCard for Core 2 Extreme ONLY
> >    Wireless : EMEA Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth 2.1 MiniCard 
> >    Keyboard : Internal German Qwertz Keyboard
> 
> I have now installed CURRENT in that Precision M4400; shrinked the Vista
> partition to 50 GByte and installed in the remaining 170 GByte FreeBSD
> CURRENT from a prepared USB key.
> 
> It seems that the Quadro FX 770M Graphics Card is not supported by the
> NVIDIA driver in Xorg 1.6. -- any idea how to solve this?

I have ported the nouveau drm driver.

http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm-nouveau-043009.patch

It is working on NV50 cards, NV40 was working, but with WITNESS enabled
I seem to be getting a panic on NV40.  My NV40 card seems to be having
memory issues so I haven't been able to get and/or see the backtrace.  I
think it is just a locking issue which should be pretty easily solved if
I can get a clear backtrace.

You will need current libdrm and xf86-video-nouveau from ports.

This won't get you 3d right now, but should get you EXA + Xv.

robert.

> Thx in advance
> 
> 	matthias
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Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org>
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