From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 4 22:21:58 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDA687CE for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 22:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5EB9D1668 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 22:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s04Lr7Jo098169; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 14:53:07 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) with ESMTP id s04Lr7Yu098166; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 14:53:07 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 14:53:07 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: doug@safeport.com Subject: Re: Xorg support question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:53:07 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 22:21:58 -0000 On Sat, 4 Jan 2014, doug@safeport.com wrote: > KMS: Is this is an Intel only thing, No. At present on FreeBSD, Intel and ATI/AMD. > implemented in the video card? No, it just means the video card driver is in the kernel. > Intel driver: I assume support has passed the ironlake card by. I confess that the Intel codenames usually mean nothing to me. KMS Intel drivers work on both Core2 and i3/i5 notebooks for me, and just recently KMS Radeon drivers work on 4650 and 4850 desktop cards. > The question here is: Is there a way to take the output of pciconf and > relate it to a vendor card designation? The way I read the man page > for the Intel driver, ironlake should be supported, but it is not. Don't know, but it would be handy. > The last more general question is: Is there a way to avoid Intel graphics and > RealteK wireless since neither seems to be on the 'to be supported' queue. Good news: most Intel graphics are supported, except for the newest Haswell stuff (and the old, old chipset that Intel wants to forget). And more good news, there is a driver for the newer Realtek 8188/8192: rsu(4). But I still prefer to just put in an Atheros card when possible.