Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 09:29:55 -0500 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@gmail.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xf86-video-intel upgrade, anyone? Message-ID: <AANLkTimw=OX3YkdTU6j02wWdFMNorpa76jKCBYW4gZ2%2B@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110105132302.GG1850@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <20110105091240.GF1850@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20110105082509.GA57232@somecodehere.com> <20110105132302.GG1850@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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I have been told on another thread that FreeBSD does not support any recent laptop. NVidia switchable graphics is not supported, any recent ATI video cards are not supported and any graphic card that comes with i-series CPUs are not supported either. So we are basically in big trouble until this get fixed (hopefully this will happen very very soon, but I have no clue). The only solution right now is to use the Vesa driver, but this is pretty useless to get a new laptop and not being able to use its GPU... On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > 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. ;-) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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