From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 04:33:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902581065675 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:33:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3492E8FC0C for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id pBK4XuVu002121; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:33:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id pBK4Xu9m002118; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:33:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:33:56 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Da Rock In-Reply-To: <4EEFB89D.1030103@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Message-ID: References: <4EEF208F.1060100@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4EEF3183.3060907@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4EEFB89D.1030103@herveybayaustralia.com.au> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:33:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:33:58 -0000 On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: >> Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from >> another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the >> two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS option >> to disable one or the other. There should still be two video outputs. >> >> More than one video card at a time is a different issue, which is also >> unsupported on FreeBSD AFAIK: >> (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support > It appears that it is something that needs to be resolved pretty quickly > then. The linux guys jumped on it quick as (I'm not ribbing by the way) - > probably their guys came across it sooner than BSD users. > > What has thrown me is the fact that I didn't even consider it as a problem > because I already had installed on a dual video system- ATI card and NVidia > onboard, both that will work on a linux system, and that FBSD has no problem > like this either; it just works. Weird... It's difficult to tell what you're saying. It's possible that multiple cards would work in some combinations, and just that the ones I tried did not. Also, you're talking about two systems, a laptop and a desktop. So it would be good to get some specifics, like laptop brand and model, whether the desktop dual-card setup worked with FreeBSD (and which version of FreeBSD).