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From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
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Subject: Re: nvidia chip along with skylake chip....
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On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 03:51:12PM +0100, Stefan Wendler wrote:
> Oh I am certainly interested in this hack ;)
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong, but afaik you still need to have working
> support for the intel gpu that finally displays the stuff. And Skylake
> is not currently supported with FreeBSD. So there is no way in getting
> optimus to work then.
I seem(!) to be able to get VESA running on my Skylake chip, but 
unaccelerated.  It also has the nvidia chip available, but X doesn't seem
to want to enable it.


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