6.2/i386 X/DRI issues

Reid Linnemann lreid at cs.okstate.edu
Wed May 30 16:26:30 UTC 2007


Written by freebsd at schlossadler.net on 05/29/07 20:14>>
> Hi All
> 
> Installed FreeBSD i386, Rel 6.2 on a machine thats got an i945 chipset on 
> the motherboard, integrated video too. Everything seems to be supported, 
> SATA controllers the lot... but no AGP or DRM support?
> 
> i have the statements
> 
> device  agp
> device  drm
> device  i915drm
> 
> in my kernel conf, after building the new kernel.
> 
> dmesg |grep agp
> dmesg |grep drm
> 
> Returns absolutely nothing....
> 
> The i945 has been around for a while now.. Whats missing here? the actual 
> motherboard has the video card integrated. This motherboard has no AGP 
> slot on it, only PCI-E for a video card. I am not sure whether the onboard
> integrated graphics is wired into AGP or PCI-E
> 
> Would this make a difference? is there any workaround/solution?
> 
> And yes, the whole point is to get DRI working in X.
> 
> Cheers
> Alex
> 
> 
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i945 dri is working in 6-STABLE as of some months ago.


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