Re: Xfree 4.x.x and Intel i810 revisited
Ronnie Clark wrote: Hello all... A few weeks ago, there was a thread of someone trying to get X working with the i810 cheipset. Did this ever get resolved? If so, could someone send me the final entry in the thread? Or point me to the archived thread somewhere? Or, if you happen to know what steps to take to get this to work, that would really be appreciated. (and the preferred solution) :) I'm not sure, but you migth be referencing a thread I did start. I was using such video card on an Compaq iPaq (desktop). It really is not that difficult to make it work, just RTFM make it. That is not the problem. The problem is that the chip is buggy and seems like X developers did not find how to workaround it 100%. My X kept crashing twice or more a day and then I found the final solution: another machine with another video card. But make it work and test anyway, perhaps you success using it without crashes, must test. Look for its docs (locate i810) on your filesystem and follow it. [ ]'s -- Marcio Merlone To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Xfree 4.x.x and Intel i810 revisited
At 12:35 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: PJ, What changes did you have to make? I also have the i810 chipset on board the mobo. (Dell GX-110) I aasume these changes are to the Xf86config file? The problem, basically, was to find the right configuration. They say just the defaults should work... heh, heh, heh if only they always worked.. :)) I cannot give you the exact stuff to enter, but if you go to the manual on the FreeBSD.org site, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html that should give you some help. Then you may have to play with the Depth and mode configuration. I tried with the graphical set up tool and it is quite ok if you can figure it out. Otherwise the other two command-line tools work just fine. Be sure you know what your horizontal and veritcal frequencies are and what modes your mo;nitor can handle. When you start X, generally there is a bunch of info on the screen if it crashes that can give you some idea of what may be wrong. I'm no expert at this by any means but I have found that if you persist with different configurations, something will usually work and give you an idea of what and where you should go. Usually the answer is there, my problem has always been to see the forest for the trees or the other way around I must add that even with all the problems I have had setting up my system, once you understand the basics, nothing beats FreeBSD - it really is easy to use the cvsup, the make world for updating, and especially the portupgrade utility. Let me know if this helps and if not, you'll have to give more detail as to what is going on on your machine. PJ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Xfree 4.x.x and Intel i810 revisited
Quoth Ronnie Clark on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:13:29 -0700 A few weeks ago, there was a thread of someone trying to get X working with the i810 cheipset. Did this ever get resolved? If so, could someone send me the final entry in the thread? Or point me to the archived thread somewhere? Or, if you happen to know what steps to take to get this to work, that would really be appreciated. (and the preferred solution) :) NOt sure if that will help but I got my laptop (Sony Viao R505el series) to work with the altest cvs of XFree86 and some kernel patches. I've got a howto from my web page. See if that works... it may. Good luck. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus NNGS: nick kierun, server nngs.cosmic.org, port 9696. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
