My old Thinkpad X61 finally died, and a kind person has given me a Dell Latitude E6510 which has integrated Intel HD graphics. I tried the simple expedient of swapping the hard drive from the Thinkpad to the Dell to see if it would work and it booted fine, everything worked but the graphics are very sluggish. Watching a film on VLC was impossible. A quick trawl through these forums revealed a few postings about problems with this hardware, and a suggestion that the problem would be resolved in the new 10.0 release via a KMS driver. I thought I would try out RC4 on a spare hard drive. Everything has installed and the system is up and running, but the graphics performance is no better. The only installed driver is xf86-video-intel. Is there something else that would work better? I found a reference to libva-intel-driver but pkg reports 'no such package' if I try to install it, while trying to install it from ports fails with an immediate error.
The laptop was free and if I can't get it to work I'll just have to replace the Thinkpad, but in the meantime any help or information gratefully received! I should perhaps mention that I installed the amd64 version of FreeBSD.
The laptop was free and if I can't get it to work I'll just have to replace the Thinkpad, but in the meantime any help or information gratefully received! I should perhaps mention that I installed the amd64 version of FreeBSD.