From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 18:50:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com [24.39.27.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B63837B401 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9J1oju06519; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:50:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000901c1583c$c4eb46c0$0a00a8c0@midgar> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:50:45 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Mario Doria Subject: Re: XFree86 4.1.0 -- Intel i810 driver needs kernel support Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks. I decided to try it as Rick Norman suggested in another reply, and added the agp device to the kernel and rebuilt. Works great, and no need to load the module. I am constantly in awe of how helpful the FreeBSD mailing lists are! :-) Thanks again to both of you. Conrad On 19-Oct-2001 Mario Doria wrote: >> > Quoting the FreeBSD Handbook: > > "5.4.3.1 Configuration with Intel i810 Graphics Chipsets > Configuration with Intel i810 integrated chipsets requires the agpgart > AGP > programming interface for XFree86 to to drive the card. To agpgart, the > agp.ko kernel loadable module needs to be loaded into the kernel with > kldload(8). > This can be done automatically with the loader(8) at boot time. Simply > add > this line to /boot/loader.conf: > agp_load="YES" > > Next, a device node needs to be created for the programming interface. To > create the AGP device node, run MAKEDEV(8) in the /dev directory: > # cd /dev > # sh MAKEDEV agpgart > > This will allow configuration the hardware as any other graphics board > " > > The URL is: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > > > Mario Doria > >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Conrad Sabatier >> >> "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Conrad Sabatier Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message