[openbeos] Re: Intel 945GM Support (intel_extreme driver)

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:32:50 +0200 CEST

"Mathew Schofield" <mr.skoe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/22/06, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > How do you get to believe that (even though it's definitely a
> > possibility, as Intel likes to do stuff like that, for whatever 
> > stupid
> > reason)?
> Well, i came accross it in the sources of the Xorg Driver and tried
> it. Since it *seemed* to work, and it booted without fail.

Now that's a reason :-)

[...]
> What i am doing now is installing (quad booting) FreeBSD onto my
> laptop right now, and it seems to have slight problems with the
> Driver. FreeBSD's AGP kernel module is allocating the resources, but
> there is a problem with X Freezing. Once i sort out this problem 
> (I'll
> have to update the driver) i'll get back to *trying* to hack the
> intel_extreme driver.

Good luck with it!
The patch looks fine, even though there a some minor style issues; I'll 
correct them and apply it later, thanks!

Bye,
   Axel.


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