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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:52:05 -0700
From:      "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel Haswell support - Any updates?
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On 09/17/15 11:42, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> run -HEAD on it. The wifi works great (it's atheros.)

Excellent to hear.  When I get back from traveling
I'll bring up -HEAD.

Thanks,
Russell

>
> All that's missing is haswell graphics.
>
>
> -a
>
>
> On 17 September 2015 at 11:23, Russell L. Carter <rcarter@pinyon.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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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