Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:54:19PM +0800, Chris Billington wrote:
>   
>> I found a message from Michael Erikson in NetBSD Tech-X11 list dated last 
>> December with patches to NetBSD for enabling support for the Intel 915G/GM 
>> IGD.
>>
>> I recently bought a new laptop that has one of these chipsets, and can 
>> report the following problem:
>>
>> Model is a Uniwill E30I10 with WXGA 1280x768 display, 
>> http://www.uniwill.com/products/other/m30ei0/m30ei0_print.php
>>
>> NetBSD3.0 GENERIC (before the patch): boots, Intel devices 0x2592/2792 not 
>> recognised, X11 can't have XV or hardware cursor (or read the VESA 
>> resolutions correctly). It always comes up with 1024x768 and not 
>> accelerated. There is no agpgart so the VESA driver has to be used. 
>>
>> NetBSD-3 STABLE: (CVS 6 Aug 06) hangs on boot with Generic, Generic_Laptop 
>> and custom kernels. I updated the system using the procedure at
>> http://www.s-mackie.demon.co.uk/unix-notes/NetBSD-Updates.html 
>>     
>
> Have you tried -current or as your subject suggests, you really mean
> netbsd 3? On my laptop:
>
> agp0 at pchb0: detected 7932k stolen memory
> agp0: aperture at 0xb0000000, size 0x10000000
> vga0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: Intel 82915GM/GMS Integrated Graphics Device (rev. 0x03)
>
> (II) I810(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 915GM
> (--) I810(0): Chipset: "915GM"
>
> and I am running xfree86, but that's current.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>   
Thanks Patrick
I am using NetBSD-stable (CVS tag netbsd-3, if I understand correctly). 
The i915 patches were committed to this branch in mid Feb 2006. Are you 
also using -stable?
Makes me wonder if the chipset is being set up correctly by the BIOS, if 
it is not, I guess there is little hope of getting the maker to fix it, 
so a workaround will have to be found.
I'll try -current and perhaps some livecds of Freebsd and Linux to see 
what they throw up.
regards
Chris