{"id":2559,"date":"2020-09-24T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2020-09-24T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T16:02:41","slug":"faster-intel-graphics-on-freebsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/?p=2559","title":{"rendered":"Faster Intel graphics on FreeBSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a laptop with an Intel graphic card and architecture above Sandy Bridge (circa 2011), you can accelerate xorg significantly with this little hack. Create the file <code>\/usr\/local\/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf.d\/intel.conf<\/code>:<\/p>\n<pre>Section \"Device\"\r\n  Identifier \"Intel Graphics\"\r\n  Driver     \"Intel\"\r\n  Option     \"AccelMethod\" \"sna\"\r\nEndSection\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>See the manpage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.systutorials.com\/docs\/linux\/man\/4-intel\">intel.4<\/a>. It seems that the version of xf86-video-intel on FreeBSD falls back to the UXA acceleration method but forcing SNA provided good results on my ThinkPad X250.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a laptop with an Intel graphic card and architecture above Sandy Bridge (circa 2011), you can accelerate xorg significantly with this little hack. Create the file \/usr\/local\/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf.d\/intel.conf: Section &#8220;Device&#8221; Identifier &#8220;Intel Graphics&#8221; Driver &#8220;Intel&#8221; Option &#8220;AccelMethod&#8221; &#8220;sna&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/?p=2559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1091,389,1090,150,1092,680],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accelmethod","tag-freebsd","tag-graphic","tag-intel","tag-sandy-bridge","tag-x250"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}