Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:28:55 -0500 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xf86-video-intel upgrade, anyone? Message-ID: <AANLkTi=606jybekdhwxL%2B0yUJ_ee7q9bOx6jAPOyHxO4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110105091240.GF1850@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <20110105091240.GF1850@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 If you write exact name of your CPU such as ones specified on pages http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei7ee/mobile/index.htm http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei7/mobile/index.htm http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei5/mobile/index.htm http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei3/mobile/index.htm These processors have integrated graphics . Then , it will be possible that the persons knowing these processors and their integrated graphics chips , will be able to give satisfactory answers to your questions . Also exact model name of laptop will be useful . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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