FreeBSD7 + Intel video chipset 965 + X11R6

Ghirai ghirai at ghirai.com
Sat Apr 12 01:31:47 UTC 2008


On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:04:40 -0300
"Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)" <Ian.Pitre at gnb.ca> wrote:

> Thank you for such a quick response.
>  
> 1. How could I verify which driver is being used?
>  
> 2. I went it the post-install configuration and tried downloading the Intel driver package but it failed... giving me error -1 and states to look at debug screen but I have no idea where to see that.
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: Ghirai [mailto:ghirai at ghirai.com]
> Sent: Fri 2008-04-11 21:25
> To: Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD7 + Intel video chipset 965 + X11R6
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:57:23 -0300
> "Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)" <Ian.Pitre at gnb.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > First off I'm a total newbie to FreeBSD and the UNIX world.
> > 
> > I installed FreeBSD 7 about 1 wk ago and I'm about to give up at this point as I'm having video problems but it seems like such a great OS I want to fix it.
> > 
> > My video hardware:
> > 
> > Integrated onboard Intel video card, 965 chipset using the system memory
> > 
> > Here is the problem;
> > 
> > I have GNOME (version that comes with FreeBSD 7) for an interface and initially when it loaded my mouse didn't work.  I used the xorgconfig, xorgcfg did not work.  Once I ran the configuration utility and the new xorg.conf file was created I rebooted and now I have a mouse but the screen resolution is extremely low (everything is huge).  Before I ran the utility and loaded gnome the resolution was very decent (but I had no mouse).  I know they're probably unrelated.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> > 
> > p.s. I discovered on X.org that the Intel 965 chipset is 'now' supported in release X11R7.2.  Would upgrading X be the smartest thing to do but my question since I'm a total newbie is... how do I do that :)
> > 
> > Thanks for any advice
> > 
> > Ian
> 
> Make sure you have moused_enable="YES" in rc.conf,
> as well as usbd_enable="YES" (if you have an usb mouse).
> 
> You should also verify that Xorg uses the 'intel' driver.
> 
> The handbook covers basic X11 setup pretty well:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Ghirai.
> 
> 

1. cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver

2. assuming you have ports installed:
cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel && make install clean

Then make sure you have something like: Driver "intel" in your xorg.conf file.

3. Please don't top post.

-- 
Regards,
Ghirai.


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