Re: Intel GMA 3150

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:45:54 +0100
Matthias Kretschmer <kretschm%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:02:02PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:17:27 +0000
> > Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost> wrote:
> > After a bit of search, looks like x11/xf86-video-intel driver is
> > version 2.7.1 which is too old. Do you think I could manually
> > upgrade this driver to 2.13.0 and x11/libdrm to 2.4.22, and then
> > build xorg from pkgsrc as usual? Do you think newer driver will
> > work with older xorg?
> > 
> > Well I'd have to wait for the hardware to arrive before I can try
> > this.
> 
> as far as I understand the new intel driver requires kernel mode
> setting.  Does this work with NetBSD?  I would be interested in an
> update of the driver as the one from pkgsrc has a bug that causes
> the output of warzone2100 to be black and I would be interested in
> playing that ...

Hmm... kernel mode setting? No idea, does anyone know what the status
of kernel mode setting for NetBSD is?