Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:06:48 +0200 From: Florent Peterschmitt <florent@peterschmitt.fr> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support kernel mode setting on Intel Haswell? Message-ID: <51B96F88.80907@peterschmitt.fr> In-Reply-To: <CAAPLAP0YfYhxWUXQbBmvA1WQaz8aN_mak6cea1pDoKa0CGwYxQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAAPLAP0YfYhxWUXQbBmvA1WQaz8aN_mak6cea1pDoKa0CGwYxQ@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2UEBMJPSHQIHHNTCTIHOX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le 12/06/2013 21:48, Neel Chauhan a =E9crit : > Dear freebsd-x11 mailing list, > I am assembling a new PC soon and want to know if FreeBSD 9.1 supports > kernel mode setting on Intel's new Haswell CPUs. How well is it > supported? Am I better off buying a nVidia card to use FreeBSD? > Thanks, > Neel By an nVidia one, the Intel driver and KMS implementation is really not ready. No console back to X.org, if X crashes you have to reboot, if you want to change of WM/DE you have to reboot=85 and display is slow, even o= n my 15" screen. A little nVidia + blob driver will do better work than Intel one. --=20 Florent Peterschmitt | Please: florent@peterschmitt.fr | * Avoid HTML/RTF in E-mail. +33 (0)6 64 33 97 92 | * Send PDF for documents. http://florent.peterschmitt.fr | Thank you :) ------enig2UEBMJPSHQIHHNTCTIHOX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRuW+MAAoJEMtO2Sol0IIm200IAI9rqftatWukVujM7n0Wef/7 90opWphQCZDktJ5EIipxjlYQSY81Wa1UeRPpASmHS3fAkxoPPnMgeYw8aM6mXdlJ /GGknXrd7egY6akg3j3QGiF8TK6cuuDnUUZOQhMc6JCzX1O43OraAGRUMXZ8PdIF HaTMYPlJliiaVMvd/9X0a3f07v34kHDNhORxyHaLHqeoEdQo8Di0N0eDlpOU2+ue Js+hqwvB901yC7Da+ou4SFKMlAP8/QJsz0Kj7RxOjpykLUU9K2yXvf0KLERybTPY 0/z2TQ1MlJnBr5ZZ+8yCSQMzVRdV/7orkXhON4VQfOv73rS07eC8mJuNbZCI00A= =rY1t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2UEBMJPSHQIHHNTCTIHOX--
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