From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 13 02:10:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE251065783 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:10:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@mike-burns.com) Received: from jack.mike-burns.com (mike-burns.com [208.79.89.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8ED58FC17 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by jack.mike-burns.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2AA1B1141A; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:07:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:07:50 -0500 From: Mike Burns To: Robert Noland Message-ID: <20100113020750.GX77044@jack.mike-burns.com> Mail-Followup-To: Robert Noland , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20100112151924.GR77044@jack.mike-burns.com> <1263345370.2486.93.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1263345370.2486.93.camel@balrog.2hip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DisplayPort X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:10:22 -0000 On 2010-01-12 19.16.10 -0600, Robert Noland wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 10:19 -0500, Mike Burns wrote: > > Is there any work being done on DisplayPort? Are there any patches > > floating around that I can try? > > On radeon's it should work in X. I don't remember if you need the ddx > driver from git or not though. I'm doubt that intel will work, since > they have totally stopped working on anything that isn't GEM/KMS. > > It isn't entirely clear what you are asking about... but at least the > video hardware is relevant. I had expected dmesg to say something when I plugged the DisplayPort monitor in, or I had at least expected something in dmesg mentioning that it knew there was a DisplayPort device on the system (`dmesg | grep vga | wc -l' gives six results, for example). I had assumed, because of all this, that FreeBSD simply didn't recognize DisplayPort. This laptop has two graphics cards in it; I'm currently using the Intel GM45 which you mention probably doesn't support DisplayPort. The other card (ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 HD) causes the system to hang just after the boot prompt (where it displays the |/-\ animation, but it hangs on the |). So that's where I am now. Moving forward: who do I pester about getting the Intel card to understand DisplayPort? Where do I file a bug about the ATI card preventing the system from booting (and how do I even send useful information besides "it doesn't boot")?. Also, Robert, thank you for responding. This is a Lenovo Thinkpad T500. % uname -a FreeBSD battered.mike-burns.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #2: Thu Dec 24 22:22:54 EST 2009 root@battered.mike-burns.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BATTERED amd64 -- Mike Burns mike@mike-burns.com http://mike-burns.com