Hybrid Graphics

[Guido Falsi]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:31:38AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 12/01/2011 08:48, Nils Holland wrote:
> > The result is, basically, disappointing: X starts, the Xor logfile
> > actually contains stuff that looks "good", but unfortunately, I only end
> > up with a completely blank laptop screen (in the sense that the
> > backlight of the screen is on, but otherwise the screen is totally black).
> 
> Recent versions of X11 behave in this way to indicate that the display
> is working correctly.  Yes, it's pretty daft and hard to distinguish
> from various failure modes.  There's a switch you can apply to make it
> revert to the legacy gray patterned screen.

Perhaps a pointer to some documentation could be appreciated.

This is explained in the handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>