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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:45:46 -0400
From:      Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org>
To:        Jaap Boender <jaapb@kerguelen.org>,freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fw: Deignoring ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel29
Message-ID:  <a5ad9dd5-3399-4127-9e59-545416c9be6d@email.android.com>
In-Reply-To: <201010250934.28899.jaapb@kerguelen.org>
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"Jaap Boender" <jaapb@kerguelen.org> wrote:

>On Saturday 23 October 2010 17:05:46 Andrey Kosachenko wrote:
>> On 23.10.2010 18:04, Andrey Kosachenko wrote:
>> Tried legacy driver in question here (against ironlake chip): it is
>also
>> compiled/installed. However as soon as X starts blank screen appears
>and
>> seems only reboot allows to get laptop functional. I.e. there is no
>way
>> to kill X or to switch to another console (though machine is
>available
>> via network connection). Even after logging in remotely and killing X
>> screen remains blank. Turning DRI off (Option DRI "false", commenting
>> out dri, dri2, glx) didn't help. There is nothing suspicious in logs.
>
>I can confirm this, my Ironlake does the same thing.
>
>  Jaap
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Ditto here. The driver seems rather broken and the original author doesn't plan on fixing it. We are probably stuck until we get some form of GEM into the kernel. 

-- 
Kris Moore 
PC-BSD / iXsystems 



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