freebsd 6.1rc2 lacks i945 agp support

[John Hay]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:24:05PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> netsick at 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
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John Hay -- John.Hay at meraka.csir.co.za / jhay at FreeBSD.org