From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 07:26:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3ABB16A405 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 07:26:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhay@meraka.csir.co.za) Received: from zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za (zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6EC643D53 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 07:26:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhay@meraka.csir.co.za) Received: by zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za (Postfix, from userid 3973) id 9AFA533CAA; Wed, 17 May 2006 09:26:36 +0200 (SAST) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:26:36 +0200 From: John Hay To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <20060517072636.GA15060@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> References: <200605111124.k4BBO5RZ056866@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200605111124.k4BBO5RZ056866@lurza.secnetix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Subject: Re: freebsd 6.1rc2 lacks i945 agp support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 07:26:42 -0000 On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:24:05PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > netsick@iinet.net.au wrote: > > I have a Dell Optiplex 520 using i945 (ICH7) chipset. > > > > I have device agp in my kernel but /dev/agpgart is not being setup. This then > > effects the opertion of Xorg 6.9.x by not allowing it to load DRI and thus no > > XVideo support. > > The necessary fixes for i915 and i945 are in 7-current, and > I have asked several times in the past to MFC the code to > RELENG_6 (and I even showed that it's possible: My laptop > is running RELENG_6, with some code taken from -current, > so AGP is detected fine, so 3D acceleration + XVideo works). > > So, if you need that support, you have to do any of these: > - Switch to 7-current, or > - Merge the code into RELENG_6 yourself, like I did, or > - Try to talk someone into MFCing the AGP/DRM code. Any chance of making a patch of it available? If it works for me and nobody have anything against it... and it doesn't break existing stuff... I'll merge it. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org