Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Predrag Punosevac wrote:
I was wondering if anybody encountered any problems with i810 video
driver on 7.0Beta15 current.
Namely I did yesterday a fresh installation of an older Pentium III
machine and was unable to get X going.
I got Xorg as pkg_add -r by the way and the rest of the system was
installed from ISO image.
Yes, I did have
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "IgnoreAbi" "on"
EndSection
I looked carefully xorg.conf.new and the listed video driver was
i810. I did not manually compile that driver as I thought that was
included into XOrg( at least on two other new computers I use i810
driver and it was included into XOrg).
I tried though to load it manually into kernel by editing load.conf
file. Sorry I am not enclosing log file as I wiped
installation. It was very late last night and I thought it will take
me half an hour to get things working. I end up spending
3 hours.
Stupid question (especially since I dunno much about 7.0 yet),
but you did have agp_load="YES" in loader.conf, and /dev/agpgart
was created successfully?
Note that I suppose it's possible this isn't necessary in 7.x,
but it has been in the other branches for a Long Time Now(tm).
Yes I did have agp_load="YES". I have done some additional testing last
night on that machine. First of all I tried OpenBSD 4.1 and I could
start x even without xorg.conf file which is usually true in OpenBSD but
the XOrg version is 6.9.
Then I did fresh installation of 7.0 and and did pkg_add -r Xorg.
I was monkeying around with the xorg.conf.new file and I was able to get
going X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. However when
I cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf.new and startx the X would
start without clients and then would crush within a second. I could just
see various colors all over the place.
Then I tried to use xorgconfig utility and created xorg.conf file
with very conservative options ( I decreased the number of colors)
This time when I started x everything was fine for about 3 seconds and
then crash again and colors all over the place. (kernel is also frozen)
I think I am getting somewhere but I need to play with this thing
longer. For some reason when I xorgcfg -textmode I would get reply that
the command is not recognized. I will check this again.
I will try couple other things. I will also try to install 6.2 stable
and see if I can get Xorg going.
This is an old DeLL dimension computer and the monitor I was using is
Sony trinitron 15in. I will try with my 17in DeLL monitor to see if that
makes any difference.
Then I tried PC-BSD 1.4 which is 6.2 stable from July and everything
went without a hitch.
I checked xorg.conf and I saw that the listed driver is
Xf86-video-intel-2.1.1
Should I try to install Xf86-video-intel-2.1.1 and then just try to
hand configure xorg.conf file.
I did notice some discussion yesterday about i810 but I thought it
was relevant just for upgrading not for the new installation.
Any input or suggestion will be appreciated.
Predrag Punosevac
Hoping it helps,
Kevin Kinsey
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