Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 11:05:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Wendler <stefan.wendler@tngtech.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad T440p and T540p Message-ID: <844967008.3051285.1412586357997.JavaMail.zimbra@tngtech.com> In-Reply-To: <542CF1A5.5040708@shurik.kiev.ua> References: <1798925878.2574430.1412152944042.JavaMail.zimbra@tngtech.com> <687290417.2576023.1412153505489.JavaMail.zimbra@tngtech.com> <CAASDrVk%2Bo1DRhpmoBDvBV3Or4pPjmtGSRGCRbpggfUXoRMqT9g@mail.gmail.com> <542CF1A5.5040708@shurik.kiev.ua>
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Hi, thx for the reply. Unfortunately I had to decide on the notebook shortly af= ter writing my initial mail. It looks like I don't have an Optimus or Haswe= l Intel Grafics Card. But I have a 7260 Wireless card ... dang. I well see what I can do. Thank You. Cheers, Stefan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexandr Krivulya" <shuriku@shurik.kiev.ua> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2014 8:33:09 AM Subject: Re: Thinkpad T440p and T540p As far as I know modern Thinkpads have Intel Wireless 7260 NIC, which is also unsupported by FreeBSD. 02.10.2014 03:18, Lundberg, Johannes =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > Just make sure it doesn't have Optimus graphics or Intel Haswell graphics= . > My understand is that in the newer machines you can NOT choose discrete > graphic card in BIOS, you can only choose between switchable or integrate= d > and Haswell graphics is not supported. > > According to discussion forums I seem to be correct but I am not 100% sur= e. > > No Optimus support and no support for newer Intel graphic chips is one of > the reason I have to switch to Linux until we have working graphics on > FreeBSD :( > > > -- > Johannes Lundberg > BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD. > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Stefan Wendler <stefan.wendler@tngtech.co= m> > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> unfortunately my BSD workhorse (the T530) died in a horrible case of the >> gravities and I need a new one really quick. I was thinking about a full= y >> fledged T440p or a T540p with Nvidia and so on. I know the current Think= pad >> series had problems when they first came out. >> >> Does anybody have any experience with either of these notebooks? If and >> how they work with FreeBSD 10.x? >> >> Cheers, >> Stefan >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " >> _______________________________________________ freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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