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To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: Stable vs. i810 with XFree86 4.1.0
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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

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