I'm not Raphael, but I can field this one. Newer Intel chipsets have integrated GPUs. These GPUs use Kernel Mode Switching, which FreeBSD does not support (yet; work is being done on it.) A lot of newer laptops use the Intel integrated GPUs, apparently KDE has made support of them a priority.
If you don't have one of these Intel chipsets, it shouldn't have any effect whatsoever. Except that KDE requires a higher version of Mesa DRI then FreeBSD currently supports. DRI 7.11 is in the xorg-dev repository, but that's also where work is being done on the xorg "intel" driver. That driver isn't even close to production level yet, and requires you to be on 9-Beta 3 or newer. Cheers, DMK On October 24, 2011 11:32:15 AM Vans wrote: > Now I know that's not your area, but do you have any info, how is KMS > related to the desktop effects? > > Regards, > Vans. > > 24.10.2011, в 18:33, Raphael Kubo da Costa <rak...@freebsd.org> написал(а): > > N V <va...@yandex.ru> writes: > >> Hi. > >> > >> Does it mean that if I want to have compositing and effects, I have to > >> stay at 4.6.5 until mesa/xorg is updated? > > > > Probably. This isn't really my area, but from the commit log KWin will > > simply ignore Mesa < 7.10 (it assumes this is the minimum version in > > which the drivers use KMS). > > _______________________________________________ > kde-freebsd mailing list > kde-freebsd@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd > See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information