From owner-freebsd-questions  Thu Jul  6 17: 6:45 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from wilsonandhorton.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6708837BADD
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu,  6 Jul 2000 17:06:34 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz)
Received: (from jonc@localhost)
	by wilsonandhorton.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA01560;
	Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:05:47 +1200 (NZST)
	(envelope-from jonc)
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:05:47 +1200
From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: intel chipset810
Message-ID: <20000707120547.B1324@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n>
References: <000501bfe707$07340420$5920fea9@home> <20000706120723.C28850@sunbay.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i
In-Reply-To: <20000706120723.C28850@sunbay.com>; from ru@sunbay.com on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:07:23PM +0300
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:07:23PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

[...]
> Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org> and I are (slowly) working on this driver.
> At the moment I have XFree86 3.3.6 running on an i810 chipset.  But the
> driver is still incomplete and requires more testing.

More power to you both!

> But it is possible to run XFree86 3.3.6 without the kernel driver.
> You will need to compile from the latest ports/x11/XFree86, have the
> I810_UNSUPPORTED_GTT_FALLBACK environment variable set, and have the
> following section in your XF86Config:
> 
> : Section "Device"
> :     Identifier  "i810"
> :     Option      "no_accel"
> : EndSection

Yeah. Well. I'm running 4.0-stable, and doing this *almost* makes it on
the way up; but I get a core-dump just before I get a working screen. :-(

Here's hoping you get the kernel driver support in.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen                      |      To do is to be  -- Nietzsche
<jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>       |      To be is to do  -- Sartre 
                                   |      Scooby do be do -- Scooby


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message