I have the same thinkpad, ATi works pretty well for me and the DisplayPort gets recognized but i haven't test it so far. I am on 8 stable amd64 too, with mesa from git i get almost 1800 fps on glxgears and i can keep my coffee warm too :p On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Mike Burns <mike_at_mike-burns.com> wrote: > On 2010-01-12 19.16.10 -0600, Robert Noland wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 10:19 -0500, Mike Burns wrote: >> > Is there any work being done on DisplayPort? Are there any patches >> > floating around that I can try? >> >> On radeon's it should work in X. I don't remember if you need the ddx >> driver from git or not though. I'm doubt that intel will work, since >> they have totally stopped working on anything that isn't GEM/KMS. >> >> It isn't entirely clear what you are asking about... but at least the >> video hardware is relevant. > > I had expected dmesg to say something when I plugged the DisplayPort monitor > in, or I had at least expected something in dmesg mentioning that it knew > there was a DisplayPort device on the system (`dmesg | grep vga | wc -l' > gives six results, for example). I had assumed, because of all this, that > FreeBSD simply didn't recognize DisplayPort. > > This laptop has two graphics cards in it; I'm currently using the Intel GM45 > which you mention probably doesn't support DisplayPort. The other card (ATI > Mobility Radeon 3650 HD) causes the system to hang just after the boot > prompt (where it displays the |/-\ animation, but it hangs on the |). > > So that's where I am now. Moving forward: who do I pester about getting the > Intel card to understand DisplayPort? Where do I file a bug about the ATI > card preventing the system from booting (and how do I even send useful > information besides "it doesn't boot")?. > > Also, Robert, thank you for responding. > > > This is a Lenovo Thinkpad T500. > % uname -a > FreeBSD battered.mike-burns.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #2: > Thu Dec 24 22:22:54 EST 2009 > root_at_battered.mike-burns.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BATTERED amd64 > > -- > Mike Burns mike_at_mike-burns.com http://mike-burns.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Wed Jan 13 2010 - 08:01:10 UTC
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