Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:40:04 +0100 From: Tim Bishop <tim@bishnet.net> To: Novembre <novembre@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 965 and AGP Message-ID: <1181904004.3767.2.camel@myrtle.ukc.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3b47caa90706142159v4e7e1ebbu7d3de97a8b04fda3@mail.gmail.com> References: <3b47caa90706142159v4e7e1ebbu7d3de97a8b04fda3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 23:59 -0500, Novembre wrote: > Hello, > > Is Intel G965 supported on -CURRENT? It seems that the chipset cannot be > detected as AGP by the kernel module 'agp' (it is a PCI Express chip in > reality, as far as I know), so 'i915' and 'drm' modules cannot be loaded, > and the X.org driver for i810 cannot be used to start X. > Previously, I had 6.2-RELEASE installed, and that did not support the > chipset (no agpgart device in /dev/, no 'agp' kernel module loaded). I tried > updating some source files (agp.c, agp_intel.c, agp_i810.c, agpreg.h) using > the -CURRENT sources and patching agp.c and agpreg.h with Eric Anholt's > submitted patch ( see > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1177096992.5641.11.camel ), but that > didn't work as well; no matter what I tried with 6.2-RELEASE, no agp device > was detected. Then I erased my -RELEASE install and tried -STABLE with the > same results - no agp present. So I tried installing 7.0-CURRENT (though I > could not install it, but that's another issue). Looking at the output of > the system while booting, it was the only time that instead of > ---------- > pci0: <display, VGA> at device 2.0 (no driver attached) > ---------- > I did get something else (sorry, I don't remember the exact output now, but > 'no driver attached' was not there and some hex address was present). Then I > tried loading the 'i915' and 'drm' modules at the loader prompt, and 'drm' > said something along the lines of 'no agp device present' (again, i don't > remember the exact message), so it did not load. This is all before > installing the 7.0-CURRENT (which I could not do), so maybe if I use Eric > Anholt's patch for agp.c, it'll work. That patch hasn't been committed as far as I know. I have that chipset working on 7.0-CURRENT with the AGP patch and XOrg 7.2. Tim.
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