nvidia chip along with skylake chip....

[Arto Pekkanen]

So ... how important is it for you guys to get the Optimus setup working 
on FreeBSD?

I can set up a project on Github someday in the future and start working 
on my old scripts, refactoring them up to date, and finishing the 
project. Also, there would be a donation incentive, which means: you pay 
me monies -> I might work harder.

However, if you guys feel like you can work out your own solution then I 
won't bother because I got plenty other projects right now that I am 
trying to figure out. Like, I got Optimus working on my laptop once 
before, but I decided it is not worth the effort in most cases since you 
can always buy a laptop which FreeBSD supports. And if you can't do 
that, then just install Gentoo and get on with it.

Stefan Wendler kirjoitti 05.03.2016 17:33:
> vesa will always work. But vesa is not accelerated. Some People get 
> good
> fps for YT videos with the scfb vesa-driver though. But this only works
> with uefi-Version of FreeBSD. Which I cannot use because it does not
> support ZFS on root yet. For day-to-day stuff vesa works great and even
> openttd works ;) but that's about it. No 3D, no accelerated 2D, no
> Videos ...
> 
> On 03/05/16 15:53, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> 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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Arto Pekkanen