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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:30:20 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
To:        Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: two scripts for X220 users
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1sVVbLgZZXW1mkWLo9Y70R=bPkfifUVCd2MgBLAy=BvNg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201207192006.35471.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Erich Dollansky
<erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to share two scripts I found useful running FreeBSD on an X220 with Intel KMS.
>
> Script to start X:
>
> http://www.alogreentechnologies.com/freebsd/XonX220
>
> starts X after it loaded i915kms and acpi_call.
>
> The machine must have /usr/ports/sysutils/acpi_call installed.
>
> This script was inspired by http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU
>
> Script to set LCD brightness:
>
> http://www.alogreentechnologies.com/freebsd/setbrightness
>
> sets the brightness of the LCD.
>
> As I only have one X220 with an Intel CPU, the scripts have not been tested on any other machine.
>
> Feel free to use them and comment on them.

Thanks for posting these, especially the second for brightness.

I am curious about the reason you load i915kms before starting X,
though. I have not had to do this for some time. All of the code has
been added to load this module on Xorg start-up and it has always
worked for me. Admittedly, I am on a T520, not an X220, but everything
else that has been suggested for the X220 has worked fine on the T520.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com



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