suggested xorg-compatible video HW for FreeBSD/amd64 ?

Joel Dahl joel at vnode.se
Mon Nov 28 10:54:19 UTC 2011


On 28-11-2011 10:20, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Hi,
> I am looking for suggestions for a video card that works with
> some Xorg driver on FreeBSD/amd64 (either RELENG_9 or HEAD).
> I am not interested in anything fancy, just plain 2d desktop
> and video playback.
> 
> I have some new machines with i7-2600k CPU but the onboard
> card is not recognised by the newer intel drivers, and the vesa
> driver crashes as soon as i do something (such as changing
> resolution to something different from 1024, or switching vtys, etc).
> I understand that there is work in progress on the Intel side
> but i will post a separate msg on the topic.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU

-- 
Joel


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