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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:00:55 +0200
From:      George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com>
To:        mike@mike-burns.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DisplayPort
Message-ID:  <a57b43541001130100m7e86fab5h2ebf6a5e9d6fb7a4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100113020750.GX77044@jack.mike-burns.com>
References:  <20100112151924.GR77044@jack.mike-burns.com> <1263345370.2486.93.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20100113020750.GX77044@jack.mike-burns.com>

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I have the same thinkpad, ATi works pretty well for me and the
DisplayPort gets recognized
but i haven't test it so far.

I am on 8 stable amd64 too, with mesa from git i get almost 1800 fps
on glxgears and i can keep my coffee warm too :p

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Mike Burns <mike@mike-burns.com> wrote:
> On 2010-01-12 19.16.10 -0600, Robert Noland wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 10:19 -0500, Mike Burns wrote:
>> > Is there any work being done on DisplayPort? =A0Are there any patches
>> > floating around that I can try?
>>
>> On radeon's it should work in X. =A0I don't remember if you need the ddx
>> driver from git or not though. =A0I'm doubt that intel will work, since
>> they have totally stopped working on anything that isn't GEM/KMS.
>>
>> It isn't entirely clear what you are asking about... but at least the
>> video hardware is relevant.
>
> I had expected dmesg to say something when I plugged the DisplayPort moni=
tor
> in, or I had at least expected something in dmesg mentioning that it knew
> there was a DisplayPort device on the system (`dmesg | grep vga | wc -l'
> gives six results, for example). =A0I had assumed, because of all this, t=
hat
> FreeBSD simply didn't recognize DisplayPort.
>
> This laptop has two graphics cards in it; I'm currently using the Intel G=
M45
> which you mention probably doesn't support DisplayPort. =A0The other card=
 (ATI
> Mobility Radeon 3650 HD) causes the system to hang just after the boot
> prompt (where it displays the |/-\ animation, but it hangs on the |).
>
> So that's where I am now. =A0Moving forward: who do I pester about gettin=
g the
> Intel card to understand DisplayPort? =A0Where do I file a bug about the =
ATI
> card preventing the system from booting (and how do I even send useful
> information besides "it doesn't boot")?.
>
> Also, Robert, thank you for responding.
>
>
> This is a Lenovo Thinkpad T500.
> % uname -a
> =A0FreeBSD battered.mike-burns.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #2:
> =A0Thu Dec 24 22:22:54 EST 2009
> =A0root@battered.mike-burns.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BATTERED =A0amd64
>
> --
> Mike Burns mike@mike-burns.com http://mike-burns.com
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