Re: X Windows and Intel i810 driver

[dons@cse.unsw.edu.au (Donald Bruce Stewart)]

> - 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. 

oh. that explains why my two attempts so far to port the lkm to 3.1,
running X 4.20 resulted in bad things happening ... :') but the lkm was
very stable when running on 2.9, which is good.

> - 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 

the adaption to 3.1 has been done, and works well.
you can get it here:
        http://www.jakemsr.com/openbsd/agpgart/

there are still a few bugs in the code, as reported on this list
a couple of weeks ago, including problems with vt switching, which
generally result in screen corruption and/or lockups. but it
is possible to use an i810e at 16bpp in 1600x1200.

dons