From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 22 23:58:08 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4AFF2FE for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 23:58:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from new2-smtp.messagingengine.com (new2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.224]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A02D8A87 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 23:58:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailnew.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CF9AB6D for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 19:58:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 22 Mar 2015 19:58:07 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=x-sasl-enc:message-id:date:from :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=YqOuqeh9MlenQE7hwyjjFF V4cPk=; b=BFuQvdechUzaerbGN1cVlPU35FnK4nm2cL9ofKR0brJ5DsYRNyMZmE xeMrZQI7MCpJXRJrFhtNDLYdPDonPSJiV3MFoqh9TFZGMq+XJelpJmpRgPRy+QYg FqK/IAqi5FTs3y49c3yRK18o6mRcbiw4xk2ARgrWdqnovU1eTaltw= X-Sasl-enc: A8h5YwE0TodzErRvLwJjQqjbVUS0gOAyGLWQA1d6Kkxs 1427068687 Received: from [192.168.1.143] (unknown [76.14.81.229]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id BC87E6800C6; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 19:58:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <550F570E.80305@marspolar.com> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:58:06 -0700 From: Marek Novotny User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glen Barber Subject: Re: Broadwell Support FreeBSD 10.1 References: <550F50F6.7060306@marspolar.com> <20150322234900.GI13428@hub.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20150322234900.GI13428@hub.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 23:58:08 -0000 I have a 4th gen core i3 running PC-BSD 10.1 in which I let the installer do its thing. It uses zfs for / but it's not encrypted. It gave me the laptop's native res which I think is 1366 x 768. I have a 4th gen desktop installed the same way which is giving me 1920x1080. I'm not sure how it dealt with the hard drive. I'd have to check. Marek Novotny https://github.com/marek-novotny On 03/22/2015 04:49 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 04:32:06PM -0700, Marek Novotny wrote: >> New to this group, and new to FreeBSD via PC-BSD. Really like it so far. >> Sorry if this has been asked to death already. Levono has their new T450 >> with the 5th gen intel Broadwell i5 processor. I bought it with the hopes of >> running PC-BSD latest version on it. It uses intel 5500 graphics as well. >> Any potential issues using this?? >> > You won't be able to use accelerated graphics. > > I have the T540p which has the i7-4800MQ, and am quite happy with > running FreeBSD CURRENT on it. I don't care about accelerated graphics > too much, though. > > One nit with the laptop is I needed to use an external USB flash drive > to store /boot on an MBR partition, because my hard drives are > GPT-partitioned using ZFS on '/' on GELI-encrypted providers. > Otherwise, I have noticed that using the /boot on the GPT disk enforces > low resolution graphics (640x480 IIRC). > > By using a USB flash drive for /boot, I can get 1920x1080 resolution > (one of the many reasons for choosing this laptop). > > (I've been meaning to put this into the FreeBSD Wiki, but EBUSY.) > > Glen >