Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:17:12 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Chad Larson <chad@eldocomp.com> Subject: Re: Xfree86 and Intel 810 Message-ID: <20011010101712.A88413@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20011009221638.A26707@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from chad@DCFinc.com on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:16:38PM -0700 References: <20011009221638.A26707@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:16:38PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > I'm suspect this went by when I wasn't paying attention because it > didn't affect me at the time, but... > > The machine my company issued me has a decent monitor (Princeton > Graphics EO700), but the computer it's connected to has a fairly > generic Intel motherboard. It's on-board graphics is provided by > an Intel 82810E. > > I'm running 4.3-RELEASE-p18. > > As best I can tell, I need to either > A) Install Xfree86 4.x from the ports > 2) disable the on-board graphics and install an adapter > with something like an S3 or ATI chip set. > > Anyone got ideas on which is the better way to go? > FreeBSD has i810 kernel support for running XFree86 4.x. Actually, I write from such a machine. Put the agp_load="YES" line to /boot/loader.conf, then refer to i810(4) XFree86 manpage on how to set up XF86Config(5) for i810. You may also wish to tune the VideoRam option for high resolution modes. Also, it's worthy to search the mailing list archives. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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