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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?
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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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