Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:53:55 -0500 From: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to compile drm.ko on powerpc Message-ID: <AANLkTimTyODqL8OZmbsTG2XXBDBL81FvsRnO1hVsguk=@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D2F257C.50005@freebsd.org> References: <AANLkTi=CRDL-dT6Q56tbUmhzPbTBUFbX110jT99sA5SU@mail.gmail.com> <4D2DEC1B.3010208@freebsd.org> <AANLkTinHM4QmJq5i6bJoTvMKzAQfkhgj0Z6guN9LqYNZ@mail.gmail.com> <4D2F257C.50005@freebsd.org>
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I see this > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "ati" > VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" > BoardName "Rage 128 PR/PRO AGP 4x TMDS" > BusID "PCI:0:16:0" > > From the October 2008 ppc mailing list. Am I going to need to configure X with AGP 4X in the board name section? The Quicksilver will have a reinstallation with 9.0 snapshot with ports grabbed by csup or portsnap. I'll post the results and crashes on the proper mailing list. On this mailing list, I'd still like to know the open firmware commands for switching default graphic slots. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>wrote: > AGP is derived from PCI, so AGP devices show up on the PCI bus. All the AGP > kernel module does is provide hooks to manipulate some advanced features of > the bus, mostly for the benefit of drm. > -Nathan > > > On 01/12/11 19:24, Super Bisquit wrote: > >> My graphics port is agp and not pci. It's a Quicksilver 2002 with a >> 4x agp slot. >> Now, how do I make it work? That's the problem I've been recently asking >> about. >> Forgive me for bringing the next part here. >> The PowerPC snapshot 9 for the 32bit ppc needs updating. The ports >> tarball is behind. >> >> >> On 1/12/11, Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> On 01/12/11 02:39, Super Bisquit wrote: >>> >>>> http://slexy.org/view/s2NSVy7aTU >>>> >>>> The build also fails looking for machine/specialreg.h. This file is only >>>> found on i386/amd64 processors. Drm.ko is needed by agp.ko. >>>> >>> DRM is not required by AGP, rather the reverse, and DRM does not >>> presently work on powerpc. The AGP kernel module also doesn't provide >>> any useful features unless you are using DRM. You don't need either for >>> graphics on powerpc machines. >>> -Nathan >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >>> freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org >> " >> > >
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