Intel GPU driver import
Andriy Gapon
avg at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 18 05:27:49 UTC 2012
on 18/05/2012 00:26 Konstantin Belousov said the following:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:23:50PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 17/05/2012 20:05 Koop Mast said the following:
>>> I updated the xf86-video-intel driver in xorg-dev to support the
>>> situation with this new patch, it now only supports the 15.0 patch or
>>> current after this is committed.
>>>
>>> For people trying the 15.0 patch with regular ports a patch is
>>> available here:
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kwm/intel-video-i915kms.diff
>>
>> Koop,
>>
>> IMO it's better to try i915 first and then i915kms if that fails.
>
> Both i915 and i195kms are present in the system. Your proposal guarantees
> that DRI1 driver is always loaded, making new ddx non-operational.
>
> It might make sense to try i915 if i915kms failed to load, only to hope to
> support (far) future systems where i915kms is renamed back to i915. I would
> not bother now.
Ah, right, my proposal doesn't make any sense then.
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Andriy Gapon
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