On 9/17/15, Michael Gmelin <grembo_at_freebsd.org> 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 dÃa Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 11:02:07AM -0400, Kris Moore >>> escribió: >>> >>>> On 09/17/2015 09:48, Matthias Apitz wrote: >>>>> El dÃa 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. >> > > 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). 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 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"Received on Fri Sep 18 2015 - 05:20:30 UTC
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