Dual video card notebook: no X11 at all

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil at webmail.sub.ru>wrote:
[Putting 10-lines reply for 200+ lines original message without
trimming is not polite].

> 
> 9.0 does not support intel IGP. You need either patches, or more preferably
> 9-stable. See http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU
> 
> It should work with the nVidia blob though, but for that you need to
> specify it in xorg.conf, did you do that?

If the dual-GPU machine is labeled as Optimus, Nvidia card has no chance of
working with any version of FreeBSD right now. There should be no video
outputs on Nvidia chip at all, which only performs rendering into the
main memory to be displayed by embedded GPU pipeline.

On-CPU GPU should typically work, for some definition of 'work', but indeed
requires recent stable or head for kernel bits, and recent ports compiled
with right options for usermode bits.
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