xf86-video-intel upgrade, anyone?

[Ingvar Harjaks]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:12:40AM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> my wife bought a new laptop as here old one is breaking into pieces.
> It's a Dell laptop using a graphics device that is intetgrated into
> the CPU package (PCI ID 0x0046/0x8086).  Some investigation reveals
> that X.org's Intel driver branch 2.8 appears to offer support for
> this, while the FreeBSD port is still at 2.7.1.  I tried to do a
> "quick upgrade" of the port locally, but cannot get it to either patch
> (several patches fail to apply), or after removing all patches, to
> compile.
> 
> Before I start a hunk-to-hunk analysis of the existing patches to see
> what's needed and what has to be removed (because it's already part of
> the X.org sources), did anyone already do this?
> 
> The issue is moderately urgent, because if I cannot get X.org to run
> on the laptop, we have to return it to the seller within a couple of
> weeks.
> -- 
> cheers, J"org               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL
> 
> http://www.sax.de/~joerg/                        NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

Which chipset?
I guess it probably needs GEM support to work.
Currenty there's no support for it on FreeBSD.

Nice summary about GEM here:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=25122+0+archive/2010/freebsd-x11/20101031.freebsd-x11

Ingvar