Is anyone able to help? On further investigation it appears the latest drm updates do not work well with a hybrid mode laptop. It makes xfce unusable using the intel GPU. While I have managed to get KDE working it’s also slow (I switch back to XFCE from KDE because of bad performance). Unfortunately while I managed to compile the previous version of the drivers and get xfce working, now it’s broken suspend mode. Basically my laptop is now unusable and I’ve had to switch to my MacBook until I can find a resolution.
> On 30 Dec 2025, at 10:35 pm, Ben Hutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an odd problem since doing a pkg upgrade earlier today. Since I've > done that my laptop is painfull slow in XFCE but only when using the laptop > without external displays. As soon as I plug in an external display it runs > at normal performance. After disconnecting the external display it takes 1-2 > seconds to respond to general typing and also task switching. Dragging > windows around is also painfully slow. If I switch to a tty it is performant > again as well. > > Note this on a Thinkpad P1 Gen3 running hybrid graphics using both Intel and > Nvidia. From memory when using external screens it switches to the NVidia GPU > and uses the Intel when no external displays are attached (at least that's my > understanding). > > I have tried upgrading FreeBSD to the latest current. I have also force > upgraded all packages. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > Kind regards > Ben > >
