Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:33:14 -0500 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@gmail.com> To: Michal Varga <varga.michal@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: <AANLkTiniT=zHsUpQxwZVuNiKqeXD%2BzKqbrRfkquzFQ_w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1294262541.1493.8.camel@xenon> 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> <1294262541.1493.8.camel@xenon>
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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > After more research I have found that the T410s uses the same as the T510 (NVS3100M). 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). > I don't really need hibernate (i.e. suspend to disk). Suspend to RAM would be sufficient for me. This usually works on FreeBSD for Lenovo laptops, right? Thanks! > > m. > > > -- > Michal Varga, > Stonehenge (Gmail account) > > >
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