[ubuntu-x] [Retitled] i830 support

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:27 -0600, Gordon Schumacher wrote:
> On 09/20/2010 05:07 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > Aha, gotcha.  I *suspect* the calls are already coded up in the 8xx
> > driver code.  If there's anything missing, then it should be possible to
> > cargo-cult from the 9xx code.  On the plus side, if you get stuck with
> > any API stuff, the Intel developers are friendly and can be reached on
> > irc or mail pretty readily.
> >   
> 
> I also have some contacts at Intel now, albeit in entirely the wrong
> group; they might be able to pass me along to someone though.
> 
> Also, I think I know in broad strokes what it is that broke video for
> me.  I seem to remember that once upon a time, there were two drivers
> one could load for the i830 - the current driver, or the old i810 driver
> (which is still there).  The current driver never worked for me, but the
> i810 driver did.  That doesn't work anymore, but I might be able to
> cargo-cult the older i810 driver code that supported the i830 into the
> new driver.

Hm.  That reminds me of bug a freedesktop.org bug¹ that I thought
applied to i810, but seems to actually apply to (some) i830s.  If that
turns out to be your bug then there's a lot of information on that bug,
including prospective patches.

> 
> > Cool, well even if you get stuck or run short on time, please report
> > back with what you found and how far you got; possibly you can help give
> > the next guy that looks at it a leg up, or else someone might have a bit
> > of know-how that can unstick you.
> >   
> 
> Well, it'd be more a question of whether I can get to it at all; my life
> is a little crazy these days.  :-S
> But we'll see; I'd really like to get my old Thinkpad running as a netbook!
> 

¹: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17902
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