Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 20:06:14 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xf86-video-intel upgrade, anyone? Message-ID: <20110105190614.GJ1850@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=606jybekdhwxL%2B0yUJ_ee7q9bOx6jAPOyHxO4@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110105091240.GF1850@uriah.heep.sax.de> <AANLkTi=606jybekdhwxL%2B0yUJ_ee7q9bOx6jAPOyHxO4@mail.gmail.com>
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As Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > If you write exact name of your CPU such as ones specified on pages > > http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei7ee/mobile/index.htm > http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei7/mobile/index.htm > http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei5/mobile/index.htm > http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei3/mobile/index.htm The laptop is labelled "Core i5", and the boot messages say: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 460 @ 2.53GHz (2537.13-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x20655 Stepping = 5 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x9ae3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,<b17>,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT> AMD Features=0x28100000<NX,RDTSCP,LM> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> TSC: P-state invariant The link you gave mentions "2nd generation", and availability as of 02-2011, so I looked around a bit, and found: http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?familyID=43483&MarketSegment=MBL So I think it's an i5-460M. (If anyone wants the full boot messages, I can of course sent those.) > Also exact model name of laptop will be useful . When I wrote the first message, I haven't been at home so I could not lookup the exact model. Now, back home, I can. It's a DELL Vostro 3700. Googling for it reveals that apparently, some of those are sold with a "hybrid graphics" where the CPU-internal graphics is accompanied by another nVidia graphics board, but our model doesn't appear to feature this. The pciconf -lv entry of the VGA is: vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x030000 card=0x04421028 chip=0x00468086 rev=0x18 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = display subclass = VGA I see a mention of this PCI ID in the X.org driver code starting with the Intel video driver version 2.8: (src/common.h) #ifndef PCI_CHIP_IGDNG_M_G #define PCI_CHIP_IGDNG_M_G 0x0046 #define PCI_CHIP_IGDNG_M_G_BRIDGE 0x0044 #endif (And it's not only these #defines, they are actually used in the code then.) That's why I assumed it would perhaps be possible to tweak that 2.8 driver (even though I know it's still far behind the current X.org version) to compile. The VESA driver doesn't start up because it cannot find any usable mode. That's probably due to the widescreen mode this display has (1600 x 900 pixels). Maybe I could generate a modeline for that to make it work as a start, to bridge the time until the more recent X.org support is available in FreeBSD. However, for obvious reasons, I'd only do that as a stop-gap measure, if it's clear that it will eventually be supported in the forseeable future. (3D acceleration support is not crucial for us, it's basically an office machine, but 2D is.) Thanks for all the help and ideas so far! -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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