Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:10:52 -0400 From: Adam K Kirchhoff <akirchhoff135014@comcast.net> To: tomdean@speakeasy.org Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg Fails on HP Envy 3D Laptop Message-ID: <4E271A2C.2020703@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <1311185344.2262.132.camel@asus> References: <1311144218.2262.70.camel@asus> <4E26A383.1010605@FreeBSD.org> <CAFHbX1KNEUpSerTcwDnto1cd2u3P1Wgw35%2BBNYA%2BeF0iEkjxKg@mail.gmail.com> <1311185344.2262.132.camel@asus>
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On 07/20/11 14:09, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 11:15 +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > Yes, that was part of the problem. X seems to start. > > I use an xorg.conf that has only screen0 and vesa as the driver. > > I copied xorg.conf.new, that worked, to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. startx > works. > > I survive for a while with vesa. > > To get full functionality, I need a driver for Raedon. The laptop has > two graphics devices. > > (--) PCI: (0:0:2:0) 8086:0126:103c:159b Intel Corporation 2nd Generation > Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller rev 9, Mem @ > 0xc0000000/4194304, 0xb0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x00004000/64, BIOS @ > 0x????????/65536 > (--) PCI: (0:1:0:0) 1002:68a8:103c:159b ATI Technologies Inc Broadway > [ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6800 Series] rev 0, Mem @ 0xa0000000/268435456, > 0xc0700000/131072, I/O @ 0x00003000/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536 > > Is there a driver that will support the Radeon? > The radeon driver does not support that GPU without kernel modesetting, which is not available in any form for the radeon driver on FreeBSD. Please note that even once KMS is available (if that point ever comes), it will still take extra work to support switching on hybrid GPUs. Adam
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