Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:08:31 +0200 From: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeff Cross <jeff.cross@averageadmins.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, anholt@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Intel Linux Graphics on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1155222511.697.7.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <44DB4B44.80305@averageadmins.com> References: <44DB4B44.80305@averageadmins.com>
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On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 10:05 -0500, Jeff Cross wrote: > This may have already hit the list, but has anyone seen the > intellinuxgraphics.org driver site that Intel has produced. It appears > they have created drivers for their cards for Linux. > > Does anyone know if there is a work in progress to port these to > FreeBSD? I run a laptop with an i810 video chipset and this would come > in very handy. > > It appears they have an X.org 2D driver, a DRM kernel module, and a Mesa > 3D GL driver for the following cards/chipsets: > > 965G, 965Q, 946GZ, 945G, 945GM, 915G, 915GM, 865G, 855GM, 852GM, 845G, > i830M, 815, 810, 810-DC100. > > I am by far no kernel hacker or driver specialist. This is way out of > my league. I just wanted to see if anyone was working on porting these > to FreeBSD or if anyone out here in FreeBSD land had even heard of it. > I hadn't before today... Playing Wolfenstein on the laptop would be > nice! :) > > I look forward to any discussion on these drivers and an effort to port > to FreeBSD. Take a look at the Development Team[*] for the open source linux graphics driver, and you'll notice that one of the FreeBSD developers is listed there. I've CC'ed him. [*] http://intellinuxgraphics.org/team.html -- Joel
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