From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Thu Sep 17 17:40:40 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B75FA9CFA3B for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:40:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms-10.1blu.de (ms-10.1blu.de [178.254.4.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7163F1AE9 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:40:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from [82.113.121.34] (helo=localhost.unixarea.de) by ms-10.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcdAi-0006Mi-A4; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:40:36 +0200 Received: from localhost.my.domain (c720-r276659 [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.unixarea.de (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t8HHeZOT001748 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:40:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t8HHeZi5001747; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:40:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:40:35 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Kris Moore Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Haswell support - Any updates? Message-ID: <20150917174035.GA1730@c720-r276659> Reply-To: Matthias Apitz Mail-Followup-To: Matthias Apitz , Kris Moore , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <09A515F2-44BA-4DF0-9792-D4C56EEB9D7C@FreeBSD.org> <114F22EF-61E3-4D75-84FB-9D6E3FBCB8F3@FreeBSD.org> <20150917131333.GN1247@egr.msu.edu> <20150917134809.GA3025@c720-r276659> <55FAD5EF.5030001@pcbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <55FAD5EF.5030001@pcbsd.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT r269739 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 82.113.121.34 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:40:40 -0000 El día Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 11:02:07AM -0400, Kris Moore escribió: > 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. The Chromebook Acer C720 does not has UEFI; it runs Coreboot with SeaBIOS as payload. The Xorg runs fine without any xorg.conf file, just detects the video as Vesa with 1366x768 resolution, the max of the 11" screen of this netbook. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, 🌐 http://www.unixarea.de/ ☎ +49-176-38902045 No! Nein! ¡No! Όχι! -- Ευχαριστούμε!