From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 14:54:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5799916A421 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:54:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BA313C457 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:54:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 92475 invoked by uid 89); 6 Jun 2007 14:27:56 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 92468, pid: 92471, t: 2.9529s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.88/m:38/d:1474 spam: 3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 Received: from unknown (HELO ?212.71.117.70?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@212.71.117.70) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 6 Jun 2007 14:27:53 -0000 Message-ID: <4666C465.6080705@ultra-secure.de> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:27:49 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirk Davis References: <466692FF.5090308@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Dell XPS M1210 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:54:39 -0000 Kirk Davis wrote: > > Anyone have any experience with the video. I have always been a fan of > NVIDIA and dedicated video ram but I have heard of some problems with > NVIDIA + ACPI + DRI driver. Without getting to much of a religious > war... Here are my two choices: > Integrated Intel(r) Graphics Media Accelerator 950 > 256MB NVIDIA(r) GeForce(tm) Go 7400 TurboCache > > Any comments on the video on any platforms? > From what I hear, the Intel GMA will give you the least problems. The Nvidia Binary driver is "supposed" to work - but it's a long time that I've used it. See this posting: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html and this: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1262407&postcount=19 (Links taken from another posting I read in current@ just this morning) cheers, Rainer