Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 21:51:54 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xf86-video-intel upgrade, anyone? Message-ID: <20110105205154.GM1850@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimskRuMAURaYD=YP%2BZ8Ei2Zc0yWcVPHf_uDw6UN@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110105091240.GF1850@uriah.heep.sax.de> <AANLkTi=606jybekdhwxL%2B0yUJ_ee7q9bOx6jAPOyHxO4@mail.gmail.com> <20110105190614.GJ1850@uriah.heep.sax.de> <AANLkTimskRuMAURaYD=YP%2BZ8Ei2Zc0yWcVPHf_uDw6UN@mail.gmail.com>
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As Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > This means that , if you install a suitable Linux , its name > selected from the above Linux.pdf , you may be able to use a > graphical environment for a while . Well, that might be used for some development work, but when the laptop goes into productional work for my wife, it has to run FreeBSD as otherwise, I'd have to learn all the maintenance stuff anew, have to find where I get all the packages she needs, have to learn how to integrate it into my site backup, etc. pp. By staying with FreeBSD, however I could easily migrate her current environment without much hassle. > KDE or GNOME environments are similar in FreeBSD and > Linux . KDE or Gnome are not even used here (she uses plain fvwm, believe it or not ;-). It's all the other stuff around, each and every of the current applications. > If it is suitable for you , you may create a partition about FreeBSD > ( up to now never I did it , I do not know how can it be done ) and > , by using information from Linux drivers , you may develop a > working FreeBSD driver set . The question is how much work this would likely going to be. If nobody even started, and I have to start from scratch developing a kernel driver, I'm afraid this is far beyond the resources I could spend into this. Spending all my sparetime for a couple of weeks is OK, spending half a year isn't. How would I know whether the Intel driver version 2.8 requires GEM support or not? The only mention I can find in the NEWS file for GEM is: Some of the major fixes in this snapshot include: ... * Fix X server failure when running old (non-GEM) kernel That would suggest to me this version can work without GEM support. -- 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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