On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:27 -0600, Gordon Schumacher wrote: > On 09/20/2010 05:07 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > Aha, gotcha. I *suspect* the calls are already coded up in the 8xx > > driver code. If there's anything missing, then it should be possible to > > cargo-cult from the 9xx code. On the plus side, if you get stuck with > > any API stuff, the Intel developers are friendly and can be reached on > > irc or mail pretty readily. > > > > I also have some contacts at Intel now, albeit in entirely the wrong > group; they might be able to pass me along to someone though. > > Also, I think I know in broad strokes what it is that broke video for > me. I seem to remember that once upon a time, there were two drivers > one could load for the i830 - the current driver, or the old i810 driver > (which is still there). The current driver never worked for me, but the > i810 driver did. That doesn't work anymore, but I might be able to > cargo-cult the older i810 driver code that supported the i830 into the > new driver.
Hm. That reminds me of bug a freedesktop.org bug¹ that I thought applied to i810, but seems to actually apply to (some) i830s. If that turns out to be your bug then there's a lot of information on that bug, including prospective patches. > > > Cool, well even if you get stuck or run short on time, please report > > back with what you found and how far you got; possibly you can help give > > the next guy that looks at it a leg up, or else someone might have a bit > > of know-how that can unstick you. > > > > Well, it'd be more a question of whether I can get to it at all; my life > is a little crazy these days. :-S > But we'll see; I'd really like to get my old Thinkpad running as a netbook! > ¹: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17902
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