Intel GPU kernel driver

George Liaskos geo.liaskos at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 18:49:37 UTC 2011


> You did not specified, whether you hard-coded the mode line, or vsync
> range in the Xorg config. Did it magically started to work on its own
> after CRT was attached to the VGA connector ?

I do not use a configuration file, just attach the CRT, xrandr -q and
boom everything works.

> There are two potential sources of the problem:
>
> First is that I still do not activate the BIOS BAR, relying only on
> the IGD opregion to look for the VBT table. It is quite possible that
> there are two VBT tables on your machine, and the one that I parse
> right now is unmaintained. Look at the dev/drm/intel_bios.c, function
> intel_parse_bios(), the #if 1 block.
>
> Second, iic bus glue for DisplayPort is not yet finished. Since you
> have DisplayPort connector reported as present, it might affect you.
> Probably not since machine did not paniced on driver load.
>
> Feel free to submit patches, or wait until I get to the issues.
> Right now the priority is to get VM changes into tree, and stabilize GEM.

Thank you for your info, i will take a look. What i didn't mention is that this
laptop has a second GPU also [ati] which is disabled from the bios atm.

Regards,
George


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