On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 08:54:37PM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > > > On 17 Sep 2015, at 20:23, Russell L. Carter <rcarter_at_pinyon.org> wrote: > > > > > > > >> On 09/17/15 10:40, Matthias Apitz wrote: > >> El d????a Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 11:02:07AM -0400, Kris Moore escribi????: > >> > >>> On 09/17/2015 09:48, Matthias Apitz wrote: > >>>> El d????a Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 10:41:43PM +0900, Lundberg, Johannes escribi????: > >>>> > >>>>> 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. > > > > 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 the new isl driver). HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THAT BEFORE?!? I'm happy to report that's working on my Lenovo Y50-70 laptop. Thanks for the hint. > > 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 that one out. Tried an early version of 915i about half a year ago with limited 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 caveat). > > - Michael > > > Russell > > > >> matthias > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" -- Shawn Webb HardenedBSD GPG Key ID: 0x6A84658F52456EEE GPG Key Fingerprint: 2ABA B6BD EF6A F486 BE89 3D9E 6A84 658F 5245 6EEE
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