Re: X Windows and Intel i810 driver

[Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb@wanadoo.fr>]

Jason Stout wrote (in a message from Friday 14)
 > I just bought a Sony Vaio VX88 laptop and I'm trying to get OpenBSD 3.1
 > running. The laptop uses the Intel i815 chipset. Going through
 > xfree86.org tells me that this chipset is covered by the i810 driver.
 > When I run startx it crashes out with something to the effect of "Can't
 > find i810 driver". The README.810 says:
 > 
 > "This driver currently only works for Linux/ix86 and recent versions of
 > FreeBSD. It requires the agpgart kernel support, which is included in
 > Linux kernels 2.3.42 and higher and FreeBSD 4.1 and higher".
 > 
 > Doing a google search for agpgart and openbsd shows me that Matthieu 
 > Herrb <matthieu.herrb@wanadoo.fr> did an experimental port for 2.9. I
 > can't tell if it's been merged into the source tree at any point. A
 > quick search for i810 through the changelogs revealed nothing.

Looks like google doesn't index OpenBSD lists :(
You should have found 
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=101168702930857&w=2>

 > 
 > My question is, does OpenBSD 3.1 support the Intel i815 chipset? If not,
 > are there any plans to have it working anytime soon? Can I pay someone
 > to get it working sooner? Will Matthieu's patch work on 3.1?

- the LKM I ported to OpenBSD 2.9 needs some (minor) tweaks to build
  and work on OpenBSD 3.1. It will work with the XFree86 3.3.6
  XF86_SVGA X server only. 

- For XFree86 4.2, there's another 3rd party patch. It's available
  there http://www.sergey-smitienko.com.ua/files/,
  but also needs some adaptation for 3.1. You need to rebuild X with 
  '#define HasAgpGart YES' in host.def after installing the kernel
  includes. 
  This code is intended to be included in OpenBSD in the future.

-- 
Matthieu