Subject: Re: Intel i845G on-board graphics
To: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
From: John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/10/2002 21:35:50
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:33:03PM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 10:08, Daniel Brewer wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Sorry for the cross-post, but I'm having trouble getting X server to
> > recognize the on-boad i845G graphics card. It seems to identify that there
> 
> there have been, since august, a dozen very large changes to the i830
> driver.  however, nbsd has it's own version of xfree that can be dated,
> so you'll need to get a copy of the xfree86 TRUNK/HEAD sources and build
> it yourself....
> 
> it's a fast build, but be sure to run through it once with an alternate
> DESTDIR
> 
> netbsd != xfree86

Is there any way to tell a NetBSD-modified XFree86 server from a XFree86
build for NetBSD?  Would the vendor string reported by xdpyinfo mention
NetBSD?  Would ident XFree86 show any tell-tale sign?

jf
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