Re: Status of i5-3xxx graphics support

Niclas Zeising <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2020-11-09 17:59, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Since, as I previously wrote, my Radeon cards are not working well with 
> drm-kmod + radeonkms and I cannot seem to fix this, I'm evaluating what 
> to do.
> 
> 
> 
> I have another system with an i5-3470 (Ivy Bridge/HD Graphics 2500, 
> isn't it?) that I could swap with the one I'm writing from.
> How is the status of its support?
> 
> Is it supported by drm-kmod and the latest version of the graphic stack?
> Are there any known issues/limitation?
> Will it be supported for some time or is it already considered legacy?
> 
> I have a Sandy Bridge Pentium laptop and it has always suffered from 
> (not so) occasional screen tearing. Is this a known problem that would 
> affect the i5 too?

This CPU and GPU should work fine with drm-fbsd12.0-kmod or 
drm-current-kmod (depending on if you are on FreeBSD 12 or current).
I don't know about tearing issues, I have not experienced it myself to 
any extent, across several versions of intel GPUs.

> 
> Will it support dual monitor?

I see no reason it wouldn't.

> 
> 
> 
> Out of curiosity, MB specs say:
> - 1 x HDMI® port with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @60Hz
> - 1 x DVI-D port with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @60Hz
> - 1 x VGA port with max. resolution up to 2048x1536 @75Hz
> 
> I thought max resolution depended on the CPU, not the MB. Am I wrong?
> 

VGA doesn't have the bandwidth to handle full HD resolution.

Regards
-- 
Niclas

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