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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