Re: intelfb and G33 / Q33 / Q35 chipsets support ?

[Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>]

Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Monday, May 05, 2008 1:59 pm Gabriel C wrote:
>> Jesse Barnes wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:16 pm Gabriel C wrote:
>>>>>> See the modesetting-101 branch of
>>>>>> git://git.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm. It's a bit rough in spots but
>>>>>> the i915 driver should be pretty close to feature parity with the
>>>>>> Intel X driver at this point.
>>>>> Thx , I will try out the tree.
>>>> modesetting-101 does not compile on current git , NOPAGE_SIGBUS , nopage
>>>> and friends gone.
>>> Yeah the DRM tree doesn't have a full kernel included, so it'll
>>> occasionally be out-of-sync.  You could try a different kernel version
>>> (it almost always works with the last stable release of Linux) or merging
>>> DRM master into modesetting-101.  Assuming there are no conflicts that
>>> might also fix things. :)
>> Hehe yes , I noticed :)
>>
>> I've fixed myself local but it died later with:
>>
>> WARNING: "i2c_bit_add_bus" [/work/git/drm/linux-core/i915.ko] undefined!
>>
>> I didn't got time to investigate this one.
> 
> That can happen if the i2c stuff isn't loaded before the DRM module.  Usually 
> depmod picks this up, but if you have multiple versions lying around it may 
> pick the wrong one.  You can still load i2c-core etc. by hand though, and 
> then 'insmod i915 modeset=1'.

Right , got it to load at least that way.

It does not work here , with modeset=1 box hangs when staring X , without box magically reboots :-)

I guess I need to test it on 2.6.25 sometimes this week.

> 
> Jesse
> 
> 

Gabriel

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