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Date:      Tue, 10 Nov 2020 11:50:28 +0100
From:      Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Status of i5-3xxx graphics support
Message-ID:  <4fcd7f1b-ae3f-2d22-0884-70f58a7dd527@daemonic.se>
In-Reply-To: <47eefd0a-149c-49de-f683-16fa186e0c41@netfence.it>
References:  <47eefd0a-149c-49de-f683-16fa186e0c41@netfence.it>

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On 2020-11-09 17:59, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Hello.
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> Since, as I previously wrote, my Radeon cards are not working well with=
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> drm-kmod + radeonkms and I cannot seem to fix this, I'm evaluating what=
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> to do.
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> I have another system with an i5-3470 (Ivy Bridge/HD Graphics 2500,=20
> isn't it?) that I could swap with the one I'm writing from.
> How is the status of its support?
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> Is it supported by drm-kmod and the latest version of the graphic stack=
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> Are there any known issues/limitation?
> Will it be supported for some time or is it already considered legacy?
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> I have a Sandy Bridge Pentium laptop and it has always suffered from=20
> (not so) occasional screen tearing. Is this a known problem that would=20
> affect the i5 too?

This CPU and GPU should work fine with drm-fbsd12.0-kmod or=20
drm-current-kmod (depending on if you are on FreeBSD 12 or current).
I don't know about tearing issues, I have not experienced it myself to=20
any extent, across several versions of intel GPUs.

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> Will it support dual monitor?

I see no reason it wouldn't.

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> Out of curiosity, MB specs say:
> - 1 x HDMI=C2=AE port with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @60Hz
> - 1 x DVI-D port with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @60Hz
> - 1 x VGA port with max. resolution up to 2048x1536 @75Hz
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> I thought max resolution depended on the CPU, not the MB. Am I wrong?
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VGA doesn't have the bandwidth to handle full HD resolution.

Regards
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Niclas




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