Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:42:42 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stable vs. i810 with XFree86 4.1.0 Message-ID: <3C224D42.547FB16A@herbelot.com> References: <XFMail.011220085638.jdp@polstra.com>
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John Polstra wrote: > > Does anybody have XFree86 4.1.0 working with the Intel i810 chipset > under -stable? I know that there had been problems with this in the I had it under 4.4-Rel (I hope there is no regression) I have followed the advice of the handbook (see "5.4.3.1 Configuration with Intel i810 Graphics Chipsets"), adding the "magical" NoDDC line in XFConfig (see later) > past (several releases ago), but I assumed they would have been fixed > by now. (Yes, I do have device agp configured into my kernel.) no need to hard compile the agp driver : the loader can get it by itself > I had this working long ago during that sweet spot around XFree86 > 4.0.1 and FreeBSD-4.1, but can't get it working now with the newer > versions. The symptom is that the screen goes black when I start the > X server, and the X server loops chewing up CPU time. It takes a kill > -9 to terminate it, which of course leaves the screen in an unusable > state. > > My XF86Config file is appended. > > John > [SNIP] there should be the Option "NoDDC" line > Section "Device" > Identifier "i810" > Driver "i810" > #Option "NoAccel" > #Option "SWcursor" > VideoRam 16384 > EndSection Cheers (and many thanks for cvsup ;-)) -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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