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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:47:07 +0100
From:      Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel@roe.ch>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Thinkpad X40
Message-ID:  <20041214154707.GA8190@dragon.roe.ch>
In-Reply-To: <uh78y8125sv.fsf@P142.sics.se>
References:  <1100928108.2680.30.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my> <uh78y8125sv.fsf@P142.sics.se>

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Bengt Ahlgren <bengta@sics.se> [2004-12-13T23:26]:
> Switching to the external screen is not flawless.  [...]  There is
> also not (as of xorg 6.7.0) support for having both the internal and
> external screens on simultaneously, which is annoying when doing a
> presentation.

I did the manual upgrade to xorg 6.8.1 (using the 6c patch [1]) for
exactly this reason, which gave me a working dual head configuration,
but I am forced to use Option NoAccel because of a bug [2] in the i810
driver in 6.8.1.  As I am more interested in giving presentations than
in video performance, this does not concern me too much, though it is a
nuisance nonetheless.

I do hope there will be a fully working i810 driver soon, and DRI
support in the kernel would be nice too :)

Oh, and there is a CRT switching tool for this card on Linux named
i855crt [3] which might be of some interest if it can be ported to *BSD.
Haven't looked into it yet though.

Cheers,
Dan

[1] http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xorg-681-up-6c.diff
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488
[3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/i855crt

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Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel@roe.ch>
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