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Date:      Wed, 5 Jan 2011 14:23:02 +0100
From:      Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        Ingvar Harjaks <ingvar@somecodehere.com>
Cc:        x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xf86-video-intel upgrade, anyone?
Message-ID:  <20110105132302.GG1850@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20110105082509.GA57232@somecodehere.com>
References:  <20110105091240.GF1850@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20110105082509.GA57232@somecodehere.com>

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As Ingvar Harjaks wrote:

> Which chipset?

I have troubles figuring out what all the different names actually
stand for ...  If I figured it out correctly, it's either G45 or
GMA X4500.

> I guess it probably needs GEM support to work.
> Currenty there's no support for it on FreeBSD.

OK, that would mean to return the laptop then.  I don't want to start
maintaining a different OS just for that.

Does perhaps anyone have another recommendation for a stat-of-the-art
Dell notebook that works well with FreeBSD (at least from the X11
perspective)?  That way, we could perhaps have it replaced at the
dealer, rather than a complete return.

-- 
cheers, J"org               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/                        NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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