From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 8 18:12:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gw-us4.philips.com (gw-us4.philips.com [63.114.235.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DBAE37B422 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 18:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from founder.fang@philips.com) Received: from smtprelay-hk1.philips.com (localhost.philips.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-us4.philips.com with ESMTP id UAA05461; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 20:11:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from founder.fang@philips.com) From: founder.fang@philips.com Received: from smtprelay-asp1.philips.com(130.147.65.5) by gw-us4.philips.com via mwrap (4.0a) id xma005458; Sun, 8 Apr 01 20:11:59 -0500 Received: from APLMS01.DIAMOND.PHILIPS.COM (aplms01sv1.diamond.philips.com [130.147.79.213]) by smtprelay-hk1.philips.com (8.9.3/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with ESMTP id JAA22817; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:11:56 +0800 (HKT) Received: by APLMS01.DIAMOND.PHILIPS.COM (Soft-Switch LMS 4.0) with snapi via APAC id 0056920010481429; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:11:56 +0800 To: , Subject: Re: my i810 card doesn't work Message-ID: <0056920010481429000002L292*@MHS> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:11:56 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name="MEMO 04/09/01 09:10:07" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i am using 4.2-release,the default installation is XFree86 3.3.x,how ca= n i install 4.0.1 in my box?the following is my dmesg.is it the version you specified? BTW,is there several version for 4.2 release?whether the release versio= n is a stable version?am i use a stable version? i have another box running 3.4,the dmesg in it was "FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE"= ,so i feel confused. what's the difference between STABLE and RELEASE?=20 my dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 199= 4 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #3: Thu Apr 5 00:37:17 CST 2001 >The i810 is a piece of trash... I know this because I use one. Since i= t >is supported in XFree86 4.x only on Linux at this time, you are >restricted to XFree86 4.0.1 on FreeBSD, since this version has >patchfiles which correct the AGP code. In 4.0.2, the driver was totall= y >restructured, and the port maintainer has removed the old patchfiles. >Consequently, while the i810 will work in 4.0.2-4.0.3, switching >consoles and then switching back will crash your X server, and it won'= t >work properly until you reboot. >If you want a fully-functional XFree86 install for your FreeBSD box, >find an old copy of the ports tree (the one in 4.2-RELEASE works fine)= >with XFree86 4.0.1, and build it from there. Downloading the source fr= om >xfree86.org will not work, unless you intend to fix the i810 driver. >One more thing... XF86Setup is 3.3.x-only. You need to either write th= e >config file by hand, or use xf86config to build a skeleton for you. >I imagine that the generic SVGA server will work for the i810, but >somehow, dual-head at 640x480x8bpp per screen seems a little pointless= . -- >Andrew Hesford >ajh3@chmod.ath.cx = To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message