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Date:      Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:00:43 -0700
From:      Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
To:        Nathan Butcher <n-butcher@fusiongol.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel G33 graphics chipset and Xorg 7.3
Message-ID:  <1191254443.69459.124.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <47009BEB.5060402@fusiongol.com>
References:  <47009BEB.5060402@fusiongol.com>

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On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 16:04 +0900, Nathan Butcher wrote:
> Just wanted to post a quick message to say that Xorg7.3 is now working
> again on my Gigabyte GA-G33-D3SR motherboard, but only when using the
> Xorg VESA driver.
>=20
> The latest Xorg 7.3 intel video driver actually supports the G33
> chipset, however the FreeBSD kernel isn't yet trained to recognise the
> G33, and instead labels the video as "VGA-compatible" in dmesg.
>=20
> As it stands, if Xorg is configured to use the intel driver with the
> G33, it crashes out because Xorg looks for an agpgart device for the
> chipset - which doesn't exist. "VGA-compatible" devices usually start
> life out as vgapci0, and since this is what CURRENT detects the G33 as,
> I can't make use of the Xorg intel driver G33 support.

Yes, agpgart support for G33 is required for X to work with better than
VESA.  I put a bit of code in for dealing with it (disabled by default),
but G33's stolen memory handling is a bit different, so it'll take some
debugging with the hardware to support it.

--=20
Eric Anholt                             anholt@FreeBSD.org
eric@anholt.net                         eric.anholt@intel.com


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