On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:35:39PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote: > On 16.03.2004 17:15 Mark Zimmerman wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:59:05PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote: > >> On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:44, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > >> > Greetings: > >> > > >> > I am running a mixed testing/unstable setup on a Dell system with the > >> > Intel 865G onboard graphics device. I installed the latest Xfree86 > >> > packages 4.3.0-5 and everything works fine with one exception: I still > >> > need to run the 865patch program to reserve video memory prior to > >> > starting the X server. The changelog comments in xserver-xfree86 > >> > indicate that this should no longer be the case. > >> > > >> I'm not sure, if even XFree86 4.4 can work around all broken Dell > >> Bioses... > >> > >> Well you could give it try: > >> Basically, it should be sufficient to replace the following files > >> (make a backup of the old ones) > >> /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 > >> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a > >> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a > >> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o > >> > >> with those found at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ > >> > >> See, if it works better then... > >> - Christian > > > >Good news and bad news: It looks like it is reserving memory properly. > >The old log showed this: > >(--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 832 kByte > >and the new log shows this: > >(--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 32576 kByte > > > >However, the X server fails to start. Here is what I see on the console: > > > >giving up. > >xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server > >xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > > > > > > I'm busy right now, but I could check (actually not check, just merge into > 4.3.0-5) all changes from HEAD's i810 driver within a week, or so, and > build some homebrew debian packages. > I'll drop you a note, when I'm finished - maybe it would work then. > > - Christian
I have tried a few more experiments, with discouraging results: 1. I downloaded the files (noted above) from xfree86.org and tried them. No luck. 2. I tried various combinations of these with the ones from ~alanh. No luck. 3. I went back to all of the ones from ~alanh and was unable to reproduce the partial success. 4. I installed the latest OpenBSD snapshot which includes driver updates as recent as a week ago. No luck. My bios revision is A03; this is the latest version available from Dell. Perhaps older ones are better (less bad?) but I have no access to them. In any event, it may not be the best use of your time to think too much about this. I'm just wondering: if this is working on a Dell machine of yours, how is yours different? -- Mark
