Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:20:21 +0200 From: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pinter@hardenedbsd.org> To: Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org> Cc: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Haswell support - Any updates? Message-ID: <CAPQ4ffuKPRS=t96F19RTex3kJ0BjGWb8QpdZKhp2=qAd8hEq0A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <B01EFEE3-4970-432C-A6A1-C59784914EAB@freebsd.org> 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> <55FB050A.2080500@pinyon.org> <B01EFEE3-4970-432C-A6A1-C59784914EAB@freebsd.org>
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On 9/17/15, Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >> On 17 Sep 2015, at 20:23, Russell L. Carter <rcarter@pinyon.org> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 09/17/15 10:40, Matthias Apitz wrote: >>> El d=C3=83=C2=ADa Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 11:02:07AM -0400, = Kris Moore >>> escribi=C3=83=C2=B3: >>> >>>> On 09/17/2015 09:48, Matthias Apitz wrote: >>>>> El d=C3=83=C2=ADa Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 10:41:43PM +0900= , Lundberg, >>>>> Johannes escribi=C3=83=C2=B3: >>>>> >>>>>> 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 a= s >>> 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. >> > > It's all in CURRENT, see http://blog.grem.de/pages/c720.html. > > Brightness control is done through graphics/intel-backlight (should work = on > other Intel GPUs as well). Auto-brightness control works as well (using t= he > new isl driver). Wow! Thank you very much for this info! > > HDMI works in VESA mode (mirrors the internal display). It suspends but > won't resume, probably due to video, I was never able to really figure th= at > one out. Tried an early version of 915i about half a year ago with limite= d > success, will try again at/after EuroBSDCon. > > There are a couple of people who helped me testing and most of them seem > quite happy with the results (no suspend/resume being the only real cavea= t). > > - Michael > >> Russell >> >>> matthias >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= "
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