From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 18:11:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6BA2106566C for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:11:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from akirchhoff135014@comcast.net) Received: from qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A011C8FC0A for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:11:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.51]) by qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id AJ3T1h00916AWCUAEJB634; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:11:06 +0000 Received: from memory.visualtech.com ([67.103.204.242]) by omta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id AJAy1h00H5EJinX8SJB02z; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:11:07 +0000 Message-ID: <4E271A2C.2020703@comcast.net> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:10:52 -0400 From: Adam K Kirchhoff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110709 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tomdean@speakeasy.org References: <1311144218.2262.70.camel@asus> <4E26A383.1010605@FreeBSD.org> <1311185344.2262.132.camel@asus> In-Reply-To: <1311185344.2262.132.camel@asus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg Fails on HP Envy 3D Laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:11:09 -0000 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