Doesn't FreeBSD-8.0 still contain a driver for "i810"?

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Hello,

I used to run FreeBSD-7.0 and 7.1 with xorg-driver for "i810"
However, right now I have not seen it anymore.
Could anyone tell me how to configure X in this case?

Thank you very much.

[phoenix]

# psearch intel
...
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel Driver for Intel integrated graphics chipsets

# cat /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel/pkg-descr
Driver for Intel integrated graphics chipsets. It supports the i810,
i810-DC100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM,
945G, 945GM, 965G, 965Q, 946GZ and 965GM chipsets.


It's still there.

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Yet when I entered "X -configure" FreeBSD listed video drivers and said
"No devices to configure. Configuration failed.

Could anyone tell me why please?

Thank you.

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And in the drivers' list, there's been the word "intel".

[DutchDaemon]

Did you actually install x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel?

[richardpl]

xf86-video-intel != xf86-video-i810

If intel driver does not work do not complain here, it is not FreeBSD fault.

[DutchDaemon]

Just going by what Phoenix said in post #2. Also note that x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel has CONFLICTS= xf86-video-i810-[0-9]* set, which indicates that this port supersedes the i810 one(s).

[phoenix]

And the pkg-descr for xf86-video-intel lists the i810 chipset as supported.

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May I say that I have installed xf86-video-intel?

[DutchDaemon]

See what the relevant data block in pciconf -lv gives you for that card.

[wblock@]

May I say that I have installed xf86-video-intel?

Just to be sure: did you set Driver "intel" in the Device section of xorg.conf?

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I'm afraid I have to say I have configured X successfully with 'intel'
The original problem was kern.securelevel which was not equal to -1 (but 1).

However the new problem is that the screen does not show any effect and remain
completely blank after I enter "X -config /root/xorg.conf.new"

Could somebody help me with this please?

[DutchDaemon]

Please make a new topic for that (or search the X.Org forums here, it's a common occurrence).

[dennylin93]

There's an entire chapter in the Handbook about the X Window System (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x11.html).

[chess]

I'm afraid I have to say I have configured X successfully with 'intel'
The original problem was kern.securelevel which was not equal to -1 (but 1).

However the new problem is that the screen does not show any effect and remain
completely blank after I enter "X -config /root/xorg.conf.new"

Could somebody help me with this please?

Is the screen actually blank like a suspend or is X actually showing you a black screen? Keep in mind that X nowadays requires hal and dbus for autoconfiguration -- that's an upstream xorg decision as of Xorg 7.4 IIRC -- do you need to put them in /etc/rc.conf and then either manually start hald/dbus or reboot. If you don't, X will start and give you black screen (no more white/black checkerboard as the default xorg background) and you won't be able to quit since your keyboard won't be detected if hald isn't running.

I agree with above poster - read the section on configuring X in the handbook.

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I have read the section of the handbook already; and I also added hald_enable and dbus_enable in rc.conf in /etc.
The result has been still the same: blank screen. I think that X has been showing a blank screen.