Re: Followup On Recent MCA Madness. WAS: Need Help With MCA Code
Warren Block <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.stable,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hardware |
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 02/10/2014 03:18 PM, John Baldwin wrote: >>> On Saturday, February 01, 2014 3:44:07 pm Tim Daneliuk wrote: > <SNIP> > >>> Now, if I could just figure out how to get stock X to >>> run at 1920x1080 on HD4600 graphics. Apparently neither the >>> intel of vesa drivers know how to do this, or at least I've >>> had no luck with it. The intel driver doesn't even recognize >>> the hardware as something it supports. >>> >>> "X on a server?" you say? Yes, for intermittent use of fluxbox >>> to run a bunch of xterms. >> >> For the Intel graphics you want to use i915kms. However, you need to build >> your ports with 'WITH_NEW_XORG=yes' set in /etc/make.conf. There are more >> details about this on the wiki. >> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics Important note: fourth-generation (Haswell) Intel CPU graphics are not supported yet. No idea on a time frame for that. > I've been considering this, but I have a few more questions, if I may: > > - There was a time when the new Xorg stuff did not play well with VTYs. > Is this still the case or has it been resolved? See https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons This has not yet been MFCed to 10-stable, so at present consoles are not visible after X has been started. Commands can still be typed, though. > - If I were to set this option in make.conf, is it sufficient to simply > force a recompilation of every port on the machine via portupgrade, > or is there a better way? The better way is shown on the KMS page, a bit farther down: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Installing_KMS_Ports _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"