Any luck with FreeBSD with hardware acceleration on the Acer Nitro 5?
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TheBlueisunreal · 2021-05-10 21:22

Hello, World! I'm a linux user, and I'm kinda wanting to hope into
that FreeBSD type of thing, and I did try it on the laptop, but I
never got graphics to work right. The Nvidia driver installed fine,
but I can't get it to work. Also, is there hybrid graphics support
like Bumblebee or Primus or something like that? Mine's pretty much
what came from the factory, which Arch Linux and Windows 10
sideloaded.

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Intel Core i5 9300H

Nvidia GTX 1650 mobile

8GB DDR4 RAM

256GB NVME SSD

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vermaden · 2021-05-10 22:13

Have you tried using the Intel graphics?

Try these (assuming You are on FreeBSD 13.0):

    # pkg install xorg xf86-video-intel drm-fbsd13-kmod

    # grep i915kms /etc/rc.conf
      kld_list="${kld_list} /boot/modules/i915kms.ko"

    # cat /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/card.conf
    Section "Device"
      Identifier "Card0"
      Driver "modesetting"
      Option "DPMS"
      Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
    EndSection

    # su - you

    % echo xterm > ~/.xinitrc

    % xinit

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chaacxyz · 2021-05-11 06:38

I installed FreeBSD with kde on my laptop and got everything working
following this guide, they mention drm-kmod for configuring the
graphics  https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD/Setup

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ArSah3 · 2021-05-12 05:04

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/593481/how-to-enable-
hardware-acceleration-in-freebsd