Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:40:49 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: vze34nde@verizon.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i810e still doesn't work, tried everything Message-ID: <20011106174048.B13885@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <3BE87E65.FDD238CE@mail.verizon.net>; from vze34nde@verizon.net on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:20:54PM -0500 References: <3BE87E65.FDD238CE@mail.verizon.net>
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On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:20:54PM -0500, vze34nde@verizon.net wrote:
> I installed FreeBSD 4.4, and followed the recommendations posted in the
> Handbook and the mailing lists, and could not get the i810 X driver
> working.
>
> I had no problems at boot time loading the AGP module, nor making the
> device node.
>
> On XF86 v3, I generated a skeleton config file with xf86config and added
> i810 as a device with no extra keywords, and added that to my SVGA
> screen section. I got the following error when I ran "startx"
>
> SVGA: PCI: Intel Unknown Chipset (0x7125) rev 3, memory @ 0x44000000,
> 0x40100000
> SVGA: error during ioctl(GARTIOCINFO): invalid argument.
>
> When I tried installing XF86 v 4.1.0, I used XFree86 -configure which
> hung the computer, but not before generating a reasonable config file.
> I added the Option "NoDCC" line to the device section and tried
> launching X with the config file, and the computer hung again: the
> screen goes blank ("no input") and the keyboard doesn't respond, even to
> attempts to switch to tty login and kill the process.
>
> For what its worth, Red Hat 7.1 has no problem with my card. I'd rather
> not use Red Hat, however.
>
> Any ideas?
>
You may need to use the i810 XF86Config that was posted to
-stable last week. I can send you mine, offline.
gary
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