Dear all,
I have bought a new laptop (my old one was, unfortunately, stolen) with CPU Intel Core i7 and Nvidia Optimus GT 555M graphic card. I've read -here and there- that there are quite some problems with regard to Optimus on FreeBSD but they were quite old, so I'm not sure if they're still valid.
My problem is that once I've installed nvidia-driver (nvidia-driver-280.13), when I try to use it in my xorg.conf (Driver "nvidia") my laptop hangs. If I use the vesa driver for the same device, Xorg complaints with:
I looked at NVidia's site, where it states that 280.13 driver for FreeBSD does support my graphics card (http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd-x64-280.13-driver.html).
If I use the on-chip intel device using the vesa driver, X starts with 1024x768 resolution (which is actually a bit annoying). I also tried this link http://miwi.wp.lando.cc/2011/02/cft-xorg-7-5-miwi1-freebsd-edition/ so as to achieve a higher resolution with the intel driver, with no luck.
Am I doing something wrong here, or is it still early for FreeBSD to support these chipsets?
Thank you all for your help in advance.
Excerpt from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
I have bought a new laptop (my old one was, unfortunately, stolen) with CPU Intel Core i7 and Nvidia Optimus GT 555M graphic card. I've read -here and there- that there are quite some problems with regard to Optimus on FreeBSD but they were quite old, so I'm not sure if they're still valid.
My problem is that once I've installed nvidia-driver (nvidia-driver-280.13), when I try to use it in my xorg.conf (Driver "nvidia") my laptop hangs. If I use the vesa driver for the same device, Xorg complaints with:
Code:
(EE) no devices detected
I looked at NVidia's site, where it states that 280.13 driver for FreeBSD does support my graphics card (http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd-x64-280.13-driver.html).
If I use the on-chip intel device using the vesa driver, X starts with 1024x768 resolution (which is actually a bit annoying). I also tried this link http://miwi.wp.lando.cc/2011/02/cft-xorg-7-5-miwi1-freebsd-edition/ so as to achieve a higher resolution with the intel driver, with no luck.
Am I doing something wrong here, or is it still early for FreeBSD to support these chipsets?
Thank you all for your help in advance.
Excerpt from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
#Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Option "int10" "on"
Option "BusType" "PCIE"
Option "RenderAccel" "on"
Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
Option "DynamicPM" "on"
Option "DRI" "on"
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
#Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1366x768_60.00"
EndSubSection
EndSection