Dwayne MacKinnon <d...@ncf.ca> writes: > 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.
BTW, I don't know how NVidia and ATI cards are going to behave now either -- if KMS is an Intel thing, should these cards already work with desktop effects? _______________________________________________ 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
