FreeBSD on a Dell XPS M1210

[Miroslav Lachman]

Kirk Davis wrote:

[...]

> Anyone have any experience with the video. I have always been a fan of
> NVIDIA and dedicated video ram but I have heard of some problems with
> NVIDIA + ACPI + DRI driver.  Without getting to much of a religious
> war... Here are my two choices:
> 	Integrated Intel(r) Graphics Media Accelerator 950 
> 	256MB NVIDIA(r) GeForce(tm) Go 7400 TurboCache
> 
> Any comments on the video on any platforms?

My XPS has Integrated Intel(r) Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and is 
working fine under FreeBSD with xfce. I choose Intel 950 because of 
lower power consumption. I am not playing PC games, so Intel 950 has 
still more power than I can use for work or playing multimedia.

Miroslav Lachman