From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 15:22:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6D816A4DF for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:22:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from mail08a.verio.de (mail08a.verio.de [213.198.55.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 224CB43D45 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:22:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from mx39.stngva01.us.mxservers.net (204.202.242.107) by mail08a.verio.de (RS ver 1.0.95vs) with SMTP id 2-0666193352; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:22:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.jennejohn.org [213.198.5.174] (EHLO peedub.jennejohn.org) by mx39.stngva01.us.mxservers.net (mxl_mta-1.3.8-10p4) with ESMTP id a3f4bd44.27173.188.mx39.stngva01.us.mxservers.net; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:22:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.13.7/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k7AFMU7O004313; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:22:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200608101522.k7AFMU7O004313@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Joel Dahl In-Reply-To: Message from Joel Dahl of "Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:08:31 +0200." <1155222511.697.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:22:30 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Spam: [F=0.0366079703; heur=0.500(-19800); stat=0.010; spamtraq-heur=0.790(2006080919)] X-MAIL-FROM: X-SOURCE-IP: [213.198.5.174] X-Loop-Detect: 1 X-DistLoop-Detect: 1 Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Jeff Cross Subject: Re: Intel Linux Graphics on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:22:38 -0000 Joel Dahl writes: > 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 > According to the man page referenced on the site it should Just Work with recent versions of FreeBSD. Take a look at it. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyjATjennejohnDOTorg gjATfreebsdDOTorg garyjATdenxDOTde