From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 6 17:40:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8A937B418 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:40:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.0) id fA71eqw14077; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:40:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:40:49 -0800 From: Gary Kline 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> References: <3BE87E65.FDD238CE@mail.verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3BE87E65.FDD238CE@mail.verizon.net>; from vze34nde@verizon.net on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:20:54PM -0500 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message