From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 19:53:51 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8597B1065679 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:53:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@chillt.de) Received: from dd16434.kasserver.com (dd16434.kasserver.com [85.13.137.111]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A20F8FC13 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from taiko.lan (ppp-4-224.32-151.iol.it [151.32.224.4]) by dd16434.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 80D3218862A2; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:38:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4E06390D.4010700@chillt.de> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:37:49 +0200 From: Bartosz Fabianowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <1309023264.31961.1467170105@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Bastian Rieck , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations? 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: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:53:51 -0000 > If you can find AMD graphics or nVidia graphics OTHER THAN OPTIMUS, > you are fine Unfortunately, this is no longer true from AMD. Evergreen GPUs have very rudimentary 2D support only. 3D support is in the drivers but requires KMS. Although KMS is being worked on, I believe it will be for Intel GPUs only at first. So 3D support for newer AMD GPUs is a way off still :(. - Bartosz