Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:53:37 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Followup On Recent MCA Madness. WAS: Need Help With MCA Code Message-ID: <52F96681.3080604@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <201402101618.43685.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <52E73717.3000503@tundraware.com> <52EBE1FA.2040603@tundraware.com> <52ED5C97.8030503@tundraware.com> <201402101618.43685.jhb@freebsd.org>
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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 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? - 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? TIA, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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