From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 10:56:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E08416A47E for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:56:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim@bishnet.net) Received: from mx6.kent.ac.uk (mx6.kent.ac.uk [129.12.21.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2411E13C4B0 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:56:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim@bishnet.net) Received: from hathor.ukc.ac.uk ([129.12.4.12]) by mx6.kent.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hz9Dp-0004iE-Ae; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:40:05 +0100 Received: from myrtle.ukc.ac.uk ([129.12.3.176] ident=exim) by hathor.ukc.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1Hz9Dp-0007f3-63; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:40:05 +0100 Received: from myrtle.ukc.ac.uk ([129.12.3.176] ident=tdb) by myrtle.ukc.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1Hz9Do-0001yF-Vl; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:40:05 +0100 From: Tim Bishop To: Novembre In-Reply-To: <3b47caa90706142159v4e7e1ebbu7d3de97a8b04fda3@mail.gmail.com> References: <3b47caa90706142159v4e7e1ebbu7d3de97a8b04fda3@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:40:04 +0100 Message-Id: <1181904004.3767.2.camel@myrtle.ukc.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UKC-Mail-System: No virus detected X-UKC-SpamCheck: X-UKC-MailScanner-From: tim@bishnet.net X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:35:55 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 965 and AGP X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:56:28 -0000 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: 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.