From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jun 14 08:19:08 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03BF215CA085 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:19:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias@smormegpa.no) Received: from mailrelay3-1.pub.mailoutpod1-cph3.one.com (mailrelay3-1.pub.mailoutpod1-cph3.one.com [46.30.210.184]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 688B4890C6 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:19:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias@smormegpa.no) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=smormegpa.no; s=20140924; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:content-type:references:in-reply-to: date:to:from:subject:message-id:from; bh=0nGjWhg96U5qdWP4mvQe4l9h/qyrdAoDg302wGjdJPY=; b=i/A4HT13w9ekRStxjZ3OXM8a/mEa1hLHCeK31wMj1hvdrr2asSWSIbSrtDhAryRz4esgl3waqmH2U xXz7ss4FvSfstCAm3I8P3XQkyJDpSOkB7vXcYjGn2A9q+w7obfhmF7vxO6UgEh7emBsaF+QYmb05YO NNoyRnDXnJn0/BHI= X-HalOne-Cookie: 800bc8b61bfe9ad9e84decbaba9f434cb896f770 X-HalOne-ID: 0ee9f47a-8e7d-11e9-a0e4-d0431ea8bb03 Received: from picadelly.monsieur.mathieu (unknown [85.166.11.66]) by mailrelay3.pub.mailoutpod1-cph3.one.com (Halon) with ESMTPSA id 0ee9f47a-8e7d-11e9-a0e4-d0431ea8bb03; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:18:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: Lenovo Thinkpad E590T and AMD Radeon RX 550X (Intel UHD Graphics 620) From: Matthias Oestreicher To: Trond =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Endrest=F8l?= , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:19:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.5 FreeBSD GNOME Team Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 688B4890C6 X-Spamd-Bar: ------ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-6.96 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.96)[-0.958,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:19:08 -0000 Am Freitag, den 14.06.2019, 09:34 +0200 schrieb Trond Endrestøl: > Hi, > > I'm contemplating buying a Lenovo Thinkpad E590T. I will be > dual-booting Windows 10 and FreeBSD stable/12. Why stable? > > I'm considering adding 16 GiB of memory for a total of 32 GiB, and > swap the 512 GB NVMe SSD in favour of a 1 TB NVMe SSD. > > Is this laptop a wise choice? I'd advice against using a laptop for storage. > > The laptop has both AMD Radeon RX 550X and Intel UHD Graphics 620. I > didn't find anything conclusive on https://www.x.org/wiki/radeon/. > Maybe I'm simply blind. Switchable graphics are not supported in FreeBSD. You will hopefully be able to disable one of the graphic adapters in the laptop's BIOS(UEFI), but if I where you, I would rather grab a model with Intel integrated graphics only. Do you want to game on Windows? > > Is the Radeon RX 550X GPU supported by X.org and a particular driver? The kms drivers graphics/drm-kmod has at least modules for Polaris 12, thats what the 550x is build upon according to Wikipedia. Looks good. % ls /boot/modules | grep -i polaris12 amdgpu_polaris12_ce_2_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_ce_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_k_mc_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_k_smc_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_mc_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_me_2_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_me_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_mec_2_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_mec_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_mec2_2_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_mec2_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_pfp_2_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_pfp_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_rlc_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_sdma_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_sdma1_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_smc_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_uvd_bin.ko amdgpu_polaris12_vce_bin.ko Though, I don't follow the development and the there may exist issues. Anyway, most Polaris based graphics cards work very well as far as I know, but I've seen people complain about issues. Last thing I seen on the forums was someone had a problem that the screen remained black. That was Polaris 8 on a Ryzen processor, which isn't supported as well as the higher end models as far as my knowledge goes. > Does the presence of Intel UHD Graphics 620 cause any known issues? Well supported by graphics/drm-kmod > > Any other thoughts on Lenovo Thinkpad E590T? I havn't had any recent Thinkpad models myself, but I would always prefer a used T-series over a E-series. Even though the E-series should be quite fine as well compared to all other laptops series from Lenovo which I wouldn't even touch with pliers. You will most likely have to swap the wireless device. 😉 >