Fw: Deignoring ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel29

Kris Moore kris at pcbsd.org
Mon Oct 25 14:45:39 UTC 2010



"Jaap Boender" <jaapb at kerguelen.org> wrote:

>On Saturday 23 October 2010 17:05:46 Andrey Kosachenko wrote:
>> On 23.10.2010 18:04, Andrey Kosachenko wrote:
>> Tried legacy driver in question here (against ironlake chip): it is
>also
>> compiled/installed. However as soon as X starts blank screen appears
>and
>> seems only reboot allows to get laptop functional. I.e. there is no
>way
>> to kill X or to switch to another console (though machine is
>available
>> via network connection). Even after logging in remotely and killing X
>> screen remains blank. Turning DRI off (Option DRI "false", commenting
>> out dri, dri2, glx) didn't help. There is nothing suspicious in logs.
>
>I can confirm this, my Ironlake does the same thing.
>
>  Jaap
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Ditto here. The driver seems rather broken and the original author doesn't plan on fixing it. We are probably stuck until we get some form of GEM into the kernel. 

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Kris Moore 
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