Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:51:39 -0700 From: "Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH" <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-12.1 on laptop Message-ID: <CADy1Ce79MSVR1FWSSdz09P4ypXY8ocx1Ln8q-2ZCShiHN0kDeQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17109e52-a8d5-be58-d29f-aacd30f7de01@panix.com> References: <CAKy-8=hUCNiAufHHgpLJTnbS_==aHT7UyspgjLyro-yEcxJ2_w@mail.gmail.com> <CAKy-8=i07xSnz3yW3H1XCOJ8_7x_m1__e0r68HxUx-R7-A0x8w@mail.gmail.com> <CAKy-8=gte8_xZGTt17kRgPtyj9mi6wx-ahehNSGrbcedVn4ZNQ@mail.gmail.com> <CACNAnaECR4bQ=FAM%2BwTfU0HaR63uAUQkp41mS9pPSM=4K_EGqQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAKy-8=gh7nGqzf9G5A7zJDoa2EQgA432k49djHi3%2Bzhg36Tv_A@mail.gmail.com> <CAKy-8=ivtDo0it9fzyUp8mUDAQuGWVfdQqfz2hmhXcA6CXJn%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <CAKy-8=gHp67aqpXXNM=rfsWwNc4Ay__bsC-09NZ03Afm9W4ekg@mail.gmail.com> <CAKy-8=ho=mD5WLJA5iHbDt9prnrMDhjrwmWOO5NXumQDB9hXhw@mail.gmail.com> <20191128103810.9599da0b.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAKy-8=h05oQfa6rBhOH74vPt3e6m6u3-UXx6v3DWLgXp8No6Hw@mail.gmail.com> <770ebb05-9d76-1b54-5bf5-af548368e19e@hedeland.org> <CAKy-8=gccmRfqtg07JYmo15P0VV5bJo=tipOLURwEH0iA401tw@mail.gmail.com> <CAC=ypSUSmDyfECh4nD9gZ5=bWUCrPGvLs62EsRw0gfckrhJ5Gw@mail.gmail.com> <CAKy-8=jD3pWT6-YS1L-r-ms=Kr6QENzLQyncg09jJh3zRrw3xA@mail.gmail.com> <20191128140254.fc3ee735.freebsd@edvax.de> <17109e52-a8d5-be58-d29f-aacd30f7de01@panix.com>
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Laptops with two graphics processors typically use the most powerful one only to drive external monitors, and possibly only through a docking station, though I'm not as clear on that point. Kurt On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:32 AM Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> wrote: > > On 2019-11-28 08:02, Polytropon wrote: > > > The drm.ko module is also loaded. You'll need to have your > > username be a member of the "video" group to make it actually > > work for direct rendering in X, if I remember correctly. > > > > But why did you also load the nvidia kernel module? It shouldn't > > be there if you're using an Intel GPU. This matches the unneeded > > nvidia X11 driver... > > At one point, vm finance told us that computer has an Nvidia graphics > processor: > > > I actually have "Pro-level NVIDIA=C2=AE Quadro=C2=AE P500 graphics" on = my P52S > > Thinkpad. > > Maybe that's true. Maybe that computer has both that and an Intel > graphics processor that's part of the main processor. > > A web search finds that Lenovo used to sell a ThinkPad P52S, but doesn't > anymore. Ads for that computer confirm that it has "Pro-level NVIDIA=C2= =AE > Quadro=C2=AE P500 graphics", and say the processor is an Intel i7-8550U, > which includes "Intel=C2=AE UHD Graphics 620", which apparently is a grap= hics > processor packaged with the main processor. > > So, vm finance, it looks like that computer has two graphics processors. > Which one do you want to use? I guess the Nvidia graphics processor is > probably faster. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg"
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