Re: Intel GMA 3150

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

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:49:16 -0500
Steven Sartorius <ssartor%bellatlantic.net@localhost> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 16, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Sad Clouds wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:08:02 -0600
> > David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:35:48PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> >>> Hmm... kernel mode setting? No idea, does anyone know what the
> >>> status of kernel mode setting for NetBSD is?
> >> 
> >> For starters, we need an API for userland to
> > 
> > Other X11 drivers worked without any kernel mode setting APIs, why
> > is there a need for it now? It was probably developed to work with
> > Linux only. Now everybody else has to jump through the hoops to
> > have it working.
> > 
> 
> I'm in the same boat.  I built a silent home server based on an Intel
> Atom D510
> (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121399) and
> it runs fine using amd64 (5.1_RC4).  The only way to get X up and
> running, though, was to use the vesa driver.  Doesn't look like X is
> functioning in FreebSD yet either
> (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10668).
> 
> Good luck...

Yeah, I have something similar:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/pc/range/medianbox.html

I got it working with vesa driver, just like you pointed out. I don't
do any 3D stuff, so hopefully X11 should be usable for text editing.