Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:22:21 +0100 From: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> To: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de>, x11-list freebsd <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re: xf86-video-intel upgrade, anyone? Message-ID: <1294262541.1493.8.camel@xenon> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimPPOtwc5qE2AvP=e-wWYxaJqmfBa0T5dOuyRqT@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110105091240.GF1850@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20110105082509.GA57232@somecodehere.com> <20110105132302.GG1850@uriah.heep.sax.de> <AANLkTimw=OX3YkdTU6j02wWdFMNorpa76jKCBYW4gZ2%2B@mail.gmail.com> <4D24D817.9050009@janh.de> <AANLkTimPPOtwc5qE2AvP=e-wWYxaJqmfBa0T5dOuyRqT@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 16:02 -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > > I would be interested by the T410s, that can be ordered with the Intel > Centrino Wireless-N 1000 card and the NVIDIA NVS Optimus Graphics 512MB (I > am not sure if it is the same GPU that you have). Assuming for now that the > Nvidia GPU is the same, do you think that would be a winning combo (for 3D > acceleration and suspend+resume)? > For a list of currently supported GPUs, see under "Supported products" tab: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd-x86-260.19.29-driver.html With regards for suspend-resume, FreeBSD won't be a viable alternative for notebooks (or laptops if you wish) until proper S4 support is implemented (that is, like, 15 years overdue): https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=hibernate+freebsd If you prefer working mostly while your adapter is plugged into the wall socket, you ar pretty much ok, but in the other case, you actually might prefer some random flavor of Linux (note that I don't run a single Linux system *AND* I still use FreeBSD on a notebook, just that I'm aware of the downsides and can live with them). m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)
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