FreeBSD Port: x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel

Christian Laursen xi at borderworlds.dk
Fri Aug 1 14:48:24 UTC 2008


Jimmie James <jimmiejaz at gmail.com> writes:

>> >> Any chance of seeing the latest Intel 2.4.0 drivers ported across
>> to 
> FreeBSD
>>>> -it finally supports the G35 chipset that my motherboard uses.Yes I know
>>>> they have only been released last Wednesday ;-)     but I am prepared to
>>>> wait so I can finally get my motherboard working (only VESA at present).
>
>>> I'll happily commit it if you can test it.
>>>
>>> Just bump PORTVERSION to 2.4.0, run `make makesum` and `make all install clean`.
>
>>I just tested it on two laptops here and it works fine on both of them.
>
>>One of them has a 915GM chipset and the other one has a 965GM.
>
>>I have had to run with the NoAccel option turned on for a while but
>>that is now no longer neccesary. Very nice.
>
> Quick question for you Christian, you were running with NoAccel, were
> you getting this error with it?
>
> Error in I830WaitLpRing(), timeout for 2 seconds
> (WW) intel(0): PRB0_CTL (0x0001f001) indicates ring buffer enabled
> (WW) intel(0): PRB0_HEAD (0x13e1ad64) and PRB0_TAIL (0x0001afa8)
> indicate ring buffer not flushed
> (WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state.

I don't remember getting it. I have only saved one Xorg log file from
the old driver and that error is not in there.

It might have been there on the other laptop though... 

-- 
Christian Laursen


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