Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:50:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> To: Mario Doria <madd@tecdigital.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4.1.0 -- Intel i810 driver needs kernel support Message-ID: <XFMail.20011018205045.conrads@home.com> In-Reply-To: <000901c1583c$c4eb46c0$0a00a8c0@midgar>
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Thanks. I decided to try it as Rick Norman suggested in another reply, and added the agp device to the kernel and rebuilt. Works great, and no need to load the module. I am constantly in awe of how helpful the FreeBSD mailing lists are! :-) Thanks again to both of you. Conrad On 19-Oct-2001 Mario Doria wrote: >> > Quoting the FreeBSD Handbook: > > "5.4.3.1 Configuration with Intel i810 Graphics Chipsets > Configuration with Intel i810 integrated chipsets requires the agpgart > AGP > programming interface for XFree86 to to drive the card. To agpgart, the > agp.ko kernel loadable module needs to be loaded into the kernel with > kldload(8). > This can be done automatically with the loader(8) at boot time. Simply > add > this line to /boot/loader.conf: > agp_load="YES" > > Next, a device node needs to be created for the programming interface. To > create the AGP device node, run MAKEDEV(8) in the /dev directory: > # cd /dev > # sh MAKEDEV agpgart > > This will allow configuration the hardware as any other graphics board > " > > The URL is: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > > > Mario Doria > >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> >> >> "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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