Re: Aw: Re: No X on Dell E6540

From: Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 08:08:03 -0700 (MST)
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
Received on Mon Dec 21 2015 - 14:08:09 UTC

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