Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:53:18 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i810 driver problem Message-ID: <47262C1E.3090204@math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <4726116D.5040904@daleco.biz> References: <4724EF60.7040900@math.arizona.edu> <4726116D.5040904@daleco.biz>
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Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Predrag Punosevac wrote: >> I was wondering if anybody encountered any problems with i810 video >> driver on 7.0Beta15 current. >> Namely I did yesterday a fresh installation of an older Pentium III >> machine and was unable to get X going. >> I got Xorg as pkg_add -r by the way and the rest of the system was >> installed from ISO image. >> Yes, I did have >> >> Section "ServerFlags" >> Option "IgnoreAbi" "on" >> EndSection >> >> I looked carefully xorg.conf.new and the listed video driver was >> i810. I did not manually compile that driver as I thought that was >> included into XOrg( at least on two other new computers I use i810 >> driver and it was included into XOrg). >> I tried though to load it manually into kernel by editing load.conf >> file. Sorry I am not enclosing log file as I wiped >> installation. It was very late last night and I thought it will take >> me half an hour to get things working. I end up spending >> 3 hours. > > Stupid question (especially since I dunno much about 7.0 yet), > but you did have agp_load="YES" in loader.conf, and /dev/agpgart > was created successfully? > > Note that I suppose it's possible this isn't necessary in 7.x, > but it has been in the other branches for a Long Time Now(tm). > Yes I did have agp_load="YES". I have done some additional testing last night on that machine. First of all I tried OpenBSD 4.1 and I could start x even without xorg.conf file which is usually true in OpenBSD but the XOrg version is 6.9. Then I did fresh installation of 7.0 and and did pkg_add -r Xorg. I was monkeying around with the xorg.conf.new file and I was able to get going X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. However when I cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf.new and startx the X would start without clients and then would crush within a second. I could just see various colors all over the place. Then I tried to use xorgconfig utility and created xorg.conf file with very conservative options ( I decreased the number of colors) This time when I started x everything was fine for about 3 seconds and then crash again and colors all over the place. (kernel is also frozen) I think I am getting somewhere but I need to play with this thing longer. For some reason when I xorgcfg -textmode I would get reply that the command is not recognized. I will check this again. I will try couple other things. I will also try to install 6.2 stable and see if I can get Xorg going. This is an old DeLL dimension computer and the monitor I was using is Sony trinitron 15in. I will try with my 17in DeLL monitor to see if that makes any difference. >> Then I tried PC-BSD 1.4 which is 6.2 stable from July and everything >> went without a hitch. >> I checked xorg.conf and I saw that the listed driver is >> Xf86-video-intel-2.1.1 >> >> Should I try to install Xf86-video-intel-2.1.1 and then just try to >> hand configure xorg.conf file. >> >> I did notice some discussion yesterday about i810 but I thought it >> was relevant just for upgrading not for the new installation. >> >> Any input or suggestion will be appreciated. >> >> Predrag Punosevac > > Hoping it helps, > > Kevin Kinsey
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