Kris Moore <kris_at_pcbsd.org> writes: > On 09/17/2015 11:19, O. Hartmann wrote: >> Am Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:02:07 -0400 >> Kris Moore <kris_at_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. Use memcontrol to set mtrr write-combine for your Vesa. Vesa is lightning fast on T440p on 1920x1200. -- NikolaReceived on Thu Sep 17 2015 - 13:43:06 UTC
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