Aw: Re: No X on Dell E6540

[Michael B. Eichorn]

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.
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