Subject: port-i386/32550: No agp(4) support for i915 integrated graphics
To: None <port-i386-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <michael.eriksson@ericsson.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/16/2006 22:30:00
>Number:         32550
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       No agp(4) support for i915 integrated graphics
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 16 22:30:00 +0000 2006
>Originator:     Michael Eriksson
>Release:        NetBSD 3.0
>Organization:
Ericsson Research
>Environment:
System: NetBSD hal 3.0 NetBSD 3.0 (HAL) #0: Wed Dec 28 14:00:19 CET 2005 mer@killy:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/HAL i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

The NetBSD kernel does not have AGP support for the integrated
graphics device in the Intel i915 chipset. Without kernel support, the
X server can only use the integrated graphics to a limited degree,
e.g., without X-Video and hardware cursor.

>How-To-Repeat:

Try to start X on a machine with i915 internal graphics.

>Fix:

I sent patches to port-i386 (and tech-x11) a while a go, see
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2005/12/10/0000.html

There's an irrelevant definition of Compaq 56xx in sys/dev/pci/pcidevs
in the patches, which happened to be in my CVS tree. It does no harm,
but should probably be removed before the patches are commited.