Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:25:09 +0200 From: Ingvar Harjaks <ingvar@somecodehere.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xf86-video-intel upgrade, anyone? Message-ID: <20110105082509.GA57232@somecodehere.com> In-Reply-To: <20110105091240.GF1850@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <20110105091240.GF1850@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:12:40AM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > Hello, > > my wife bought a new laptop as here old one is breaking into pieces. > It's a Dell laptop using a graphics device that is intetgrated into > the CPU package (PCI ID 0x0046/0x8086). Some investigation reveals > that X.org's Intel driver branch 2.8 appears to offer support for > this, while the FreeBSD port is still at 2.7.1. I tried to do a > "quick upgrade" of the port locally, but cannot get it to either patch > (several patches fail to apply), or after removing all patches, to > compile. > > Before I start a hunk-to-hunk analysis of the existing patches to see > what's needed and what has to be removed (because it's already part of > the X.org sources), did anyone already do this? > > The issue is moderately urgent, because if I cannot get X.org to run > on the laptop, we have to return it to the seller within a couple of > weeks. > -- > cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL > > http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) Which chipset? I guess it probably needs GEM support to work. Currenty there's no support for it on FreeBSD. Nice summary about GEM here: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=25122+0+archive/2010/freebsd-x11/20101031.freebsd-x11 Ingvar
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