On 04/07/2015, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Justin Sherrill said: >> The major hurdle is those two video cards; it will probably >> require some specific xorg configuration to make sure one gets used >> and not the other. > > It is said that FreeBSD tends to use the first video card (Intel in case > of "Optimus" systems) and ignore the second one (NVidia), so the users > have to edit Xorg configuration to use second video card. It is also > said that bootloader is only capable of using the first one. So most > likely the question of video cards in this particular case boils down to > amount of support for Intel card. > > -- > Dmitrij D. Czarkoff >
>From what I understand, freebsd does not have drivers for the Intel Haswell hardware, and dragonflybsd does have the drivers. Thus, in terms of the hardware, apparently, dragonflybsd can drive it. But, as I previously said, apparently, gnome 2 is not available for the current stable version of dragonflybsd. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
