Re: Aw: Re: No X on Dell E6540
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Carsten Kunze wrote: Hello Michael, It looks like that is a machine with Haswell integrated graphics. Haswell graphics has not yet landed in CURRENT but there is a development branch availible for testing. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Update%20i915%20GPU%20driver%20to%20L inux%203.8 there is also an additional AMD graphics card in this laptop (AMD Radeon HD 8790M). Is this supported by CURRENT? The vesa driver can be run on most systems where the newer graphics are not directly supported. See the last example here: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html#x-config-video-cards-file ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Aw: Re: No X on Dell E6540
On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 15:23 +0100, Carsten Kunze wrote: > Hello Michael, > > > It looks like that is a machine with Haswell integrated graphics. > > Haswell graphics has not yet landed in CURRENT but there is a > > development branch availible for testing. > > > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Update%20i915%20GPU%20driver%20to > > %20L > > inux%203.8 > there is also an additional AMD graphics card in this laptop (AMD > Radeon HD 8790M). Is this supported by CURRENT? Unfortunately no, according to https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics the Radeon HD 8000 'Sea Islands' series is not supported at all yet. My understanding is that once i915 is upgraded to the equivalent of Linux 3.8 things should start moving somewhat faster. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Aw: Re: No X on Dell E6540
Hello Michael, > It looks like that is a machine with Haswell integrated graphics. > Haswell graphics has not yet landed in CURRENT but there is a > development branch availible for testing. > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Update%20i915%20GPU%20driver%20to%20L > inux%203.8 there is also an additional AMD graphics card in this laptop (AMD Radeon HD 8790M). Is this supported by CURRENT? Carsten ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Aw: Re: No X on Dell E6540
Hello David, > I had a similar issue with my Dell M4800 until I entered BIOS > configuration (vi F12 key at boot), selected "Video," then disabled > "Switchable Graphics." this option is unfortunately not available in "Video" (only display brightness can be set there in my BIOS). Regards, Carsten ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
