From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 2 18:59:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF8A7106566C for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:59:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zeising@daemonic.se) Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (mail.lysator.liu.se [IPv6:2001:6b0:17:f0a0::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B79F8FC0C for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B09540005 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 20:59:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 803B240004; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 20:59:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on bernadotte.lysator.liu.se X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 Received: from mx.daemonic.se (h-45-105.a163.priv.bahnhof.se [94.254.45.105]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D269040003; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 20:59:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mailscanner.daemonic.se (mailscanner.daemonic.se [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::6]) by mx.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3WQyS04H3Fz8ggx; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 20:59:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daemonic.se Received: from mx.daemonic.se ([IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::3]) (using TLS with cipher CAMELLIA256-SHA) by mailscanner.daemonic.se (mailscanner.daemonic.se [2001:470:dca9:0:1::6]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTPS id DLY-K6AFDcli; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 20:59:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.daemonic.se (mail.daemonic.se [10.1.0.4]) by mx.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3WQyRy41Fbz8ggv; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 20:59:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:1::4] (vivi.daemonic.se [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:1::4]) by mail.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3WQyRy2qggz9Ctq; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 20:59:10 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4FF1EF77.7000105@daemonic.se> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:59:03 +0200 From: Niclas Zeising User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: <201207021054.22814.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <201207021126.38116.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KMS Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:59:14 -0000 On 2012-07-02 20:54, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote: >> >> To my knowledge, KMS needs an Intel i3, i5 or i7 to work. You cannot >> use KMS with all other CPUs. > > That doesn't sound right, although I have not yet tested it. It should > only depend on the graphics chipset, not the processor, and some earlier > GPUs should be supported. For the record, it works perfectly fine on my old intel GM965 chipset, which is GMA X3100. So there is no need for an i* processor (with built in intel graphics card). Regards! -- Niclas