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Date:      Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:32:15 +0200
From:      Laurent LEVIER <llevier@argosnet.com>
To:        Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xf86-video-intel29 port update
Message-ID:  <20110905063221.908C4106566C@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E5F7A9D.7080308@gmail.com>
References:  <00380ceed090d9cd107f86db47a30ef9.squirrel@wm.argosnet.com> <4E5F7A9D.7080308@gmail.com>

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At 14:29 01/09/2011, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>Without knowing all the details about the xorg ports, there is as far as
>I can remember problems with updating the intel drivers (amongst others)
>since they require kernel features we do not yet have. If you have
>tested this driver to build and run and work with the current xorg in
>ports, then it might work. If not, you have to wait for the KMS work to
>be finished, or test it yourself together with the xorg-dev repository.
>I think you'll find the details about this here on the list and on the wiki.

Ok, now confirmed.

If everything was compiling fine, xorg only detects basic VGA. It 
launches but exiting, it reboots the box ;-(

So I will have to wait for the next kernel release supporting this.

Do you know if this will be 9.0 ?

Thanks for the info.

Brgrds 




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