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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " >
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