Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:23:06 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Haswell support - Any updates? Message-ID: <55FB050A.2080500@pinyon.org> In-Reply-To: <20150917174035.GA1730@c720-r276659> References: <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> <20150917174035.GA1730@c720-r276659>
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On 09/17/15 10:40, Matthias Apitz wrote: > 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. Do you have 802.11n and hibernate working on that c720? I put linux on mine for that reason. Although despite immense efforts I can't get the trackpad to be detected. I tried bringing up 10.2 on it but couldn't get it to boot. These things are just awesome. 4G memory + i3 + 6hr battery for $240 delivered. Russell > matthias >
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