nvidia chip along with skylake chip....

[Stefan Wendler]

There is a PR and wiki entry for this already [1]. But I haven't tried
it out yet due to a severe lack of time on my side. Maybe you already
have a solution that might help them progress?

[1]https://wiki.freebsd.org/OptimusVideoSupport

On 03/05/16 17:11, Arto Pekkanen wrote:
> So ... how important is it for you guys to get the Optimus setup working
> on FreeBSD?
> 
> I can set up a project on Github someday in the future and start working
> on my old scripts, refactoring them up to date, and finishing the
> project. Also, there would be a donation incentive, which means: you pay
> me monies -> I might work harder.
> 
> However, if you guys feel like you can work out your own solution then I
> won't bother because I got plenty other projects right now that I am
> trying to figure out. Like, I got Optimus working on my laptop once
> before, but I decided it is not worth the effort in most cases since you
> can always buy a laptop which FreeBSD supports. And if you can't do
> that, then just install Gentoo and get on with it.
> 
> Stefan Wendler kirjoitti 05.03.2016 17:33:
>> vesa will always work. But vesa is not accelerated. Some People get good
>> fps for YT videos with the scfb vesa-driver though. But this only works
>> with uefi-Version of FreeBSD. Which I cannot use because it does not
>> support ZFS on root yet. For day-to-day stuff vesa works great and even
>> openttd works ;) but that's about it. No 3D, no accelerated 2D, no
>> Videos ...
>>
>> On 03/05/16 15:53, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 03:51:12PM +0100, Stefan Wendler wrote:
>>>> Oh I am certainly interested in this hack ;)
>>>>
>>>> Correct me if I am wrong, but afaik you still need to have working
>>>> support for the intel gpu that finally displays the stuff. And Skylake
>>>> is not currently supported with FreeBSD. So there is no way in getting
>>>> optimus to work then.
>>> I seem(!) to be able to get VESA running on my Skylake chip, but
>>> unaccelerated.  It also has the nvidia chip available, but X doesn't
>>> seem
>>> to want to enable it.
>>>
>>>
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