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Date:      Sat, 5 Mar 2016 08:53:48 -0600
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        Stefan Wendler <stefan.wendler@tngtech.com>
Cc:        Arto Pekkanen <isoa@kapsi.fi>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nvidia chip along with skylake chip....
Message-ID:  <20160305145347.GA1648@lrosenman-dell.lerctr.org>
In-Reply-To: <56DAF260.2010106@tngtech.com>
References:  <20160305040606.GA5294@lrosenman-dell.lerctr.org> <56DAC595.1080604@tngtech.com> <807967c126076fa0591ea36a14cc08ad@kapsi.fi> <56DAF260.2010106@tngtech.com>

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On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 03:51:12PM +0100, Stefan Wendler wrote:
> Oh I am certainly interested in this hack ;)
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong, but afaik you still need to have working
> support for the intel gpu that finally displays the stuff. And Skylake
> is not currently supported with FreeBSD. So there is no way in getting
> optimus to work then.
I seem(!) to be able to get VESA running on my Skylake chip, but 
unaccelerated.  It also has the nvidia chip available, but X doesn't seem
to want to enable it.


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