freebsd-current + nvidia GeForce GT 520M

m irya xmirya at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 12:43:20 UTC 2011


Hello everyone

I've got Levono Ideapad z570 (i5, amd64 arch) and trying to make
graphics work with freebsd-current (recent week different snapshots);
the notebook has twographic cards,
- intel integrated graphics controller, identified as
vgapci1 at pci0:0:2:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x397d17aa chip=0x01168086
rev=0x09 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated
Graphics Controller'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA
- nvidia GeForce GT 520M card

I've tried different combinartions (properly specifying BusID for each
card), but
- the intel card isn't recognized neither with
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel nor x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel29
- the nvidia card isn't handled by x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv (i
suppose for noveau the result will be the same)
- trying to install the x11/nvidia-driver gives no luck - the machine
hangs on initialization, after Xorg logs stuff has appeared in the
console, but before the videomode has changed (with GENERIC kernel,
i've tried both the driver verson from the ports and manually updating
the port to version 275.19)
- VESA driver works both with Nvidia and Intel cards, but it gives the
maximal screen resolution of 800x600, way to small. The display
resolution is 1366x768, but the driver says there's "no mode for this
name", same for the standard 1024x768.

Did anyone try to make the same setup work? Is there any way to make
nvidia drivers work for me? Or at least how to force VESA driver use
1366x768 mode for usable workspace?


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