Re: i830MG chipset supported?

On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 13:24, Ben Hockenhull wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Due to the untimely death of my previous Vaio, I have a R505E with the
> Intel 830MG chipset.  I'm trying to get X configured on it, and have not
> yet been successful.
> 
> If I load the agp kernel module, I never do get a vga device, which
> makes everything else problematic.  Trying to config X from sysinstall
> causes a coredump.  If I use the curses-based config tool, I get a config
> file, but never get graphics.  The log of a startx is at
> http://www.jpj.net/~benh/XFree86.0.log
> 
> A search of the web uncovered a message to the Xpert list in Feb of 2002
> indicating that the i830MG chipset wasn't supported under FreeBSD, and
> that some hacking on agpgart would be necessary to make it work.
> 
> Does anyone know if progress on this has been made, or am I SOL for the
> time being?
With the current XFree86-4-server port, my I830MG works in VESA mode. 


> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ben
> 
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