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isdtor <isdtor@gmail.com> writes:
> The machine has settings for integrated/discrete/optimus. Under FBSD,
> I use discrete. The card is an nvidia nvs5400m, driver version 331.67
> (I see now that the only driver versions ever used on this machine
> were 331.49 and 331.67; initially, I started of with the integrated
> Intel graphics, which had its own set of problems). Yes to new xorg
> and kms.

It sound like it might be something specific to the optimus card and
FreeBSD.  I put 9.3 on a friend's T530 and it works quite well with none
of the problems you described.

Joseph