Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:24:40 -0400 From: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Haswell support - Any updates? Message-ID: <55FADB38.7000406@pcbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20150917171958.046e4b6b.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <55FA7324.5010603@icloud.com> <CAASDrV=D6viCDJx9yT5CiNf1ukiz_Rp1k5wqpk92xSyiNQTEqg@mail.gmail.com> <CAPS9%2BSuYq6JqzX=aHNgD=y5SUnBQ4x_Amk-6B0bvKc6kRQ5YVA@mail.gmail.com> <CAASDrVnxZ8MUmgCO-cFRVatUMQS1LHU-4XASSJckzp_FJbvd2w@mail.gmail.com> <09A515F2-44BA-4DF0-9792-D4C56EEB9D7C@FreeBSD.org> <CAASDrVnuVfOsJvNuOsAQaHYRQqFenH%2B3=wNDBO5GR5j2KgxsxQ@mail.gmail.com> <114F22EF-61E3-4D75-84FB-9D6E3FBCB8F3@FreeBSD.org> <20150917131333.GN1247@egr.msu.edu> <CAASDrVnNuh%2BjT-%2BZFTriPELfOB78accBqGmrVUE-MDgDPZoicA@mail.gmail.com> <20150917134809.GA3025@c720-r276659> <55FAD5EF.5030001@pcbsd.org> <20150917171958.046e4b6b.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On 09/17/2015 11:19, O. Hartmann wrote: > Am Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:02:07 -0400 > Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> schrieb: > >> On 09/17/2015 09:48, Matthias Apitz wrote: >>> El día Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 10:41:43PM +0900, Lundberg, Johannes >>> escribió: >>> >>>> Same here. I would personally definitely buy new hardware from Intel if >>>> FreeBSD worked on it (not vesa...) >>>> ... >>> What dow you have against vesa? I run CURRENT on some Acer C720 >>> Chromebooks with Haswell chipset in Vesa mode. And you will not note it. >>> I have never ever had such a fast desktop (KDE4) before. I can live fine >>> with Vesa until Haswell suport is there. >>> >>> matthias >> BTW, have you tried the xf86-video-scfb driver? It works much better >> than vesa here. The only catch is you have to be booted UEFI with CSM >> disabled. Using it on my X1 Carbon, gets 3k resolution properly and >> everything. Thanks to Glen Barber for bringing that to my attention. >> > Running that specific driver on several Lenovo HD4600 driven models gives me headaches > and more. This software-framebuffer works - yes, on whatever resolution you might wish, > but it consumes CPU time. That said, I recall that the display was jumpy, slow and > unresponsive when used under heavy load - not even 3k resolution, but with a moderate > lowend of 1980x1080. Interesting, that's been the opposite of my experience here. Vesa was much slower / using more CPU time and didn't give me the native resolution. Switching to scfb made the laptop "usable" for me, at least until we get a proper Intel driver that does Broadwell. -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software / iXsystems Enterprise Storage & Servers Driven By Open Source
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