Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:02:07 -0400 From: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Haswell support - Any updates? Message-ID: <55FAD5EF.5030001@pcbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20150917134809.GA3025@c720-r276659> References: <55FA7324.5010603@icloud.com> <CAASDrV=D6viCDJx9yT5CiNf1ukiz_Rp1k5wqpk92xSyiNQTEqg@mail.gmail.com> <CAPS9%2BSuYq6JqzX=aHNgD=y5SUnBQ4x_Amk-6B0bvKc6kRQ5YVA@mail.gmail.com> <CAASDrVnxZ8MUmgCO-cFRVatUMQS1LHU-4XASSJckzp_FJbvd2w@mail.gmail.com> <09A515F2-44BA-4DF0-9792-D4C56EEB9D7C@FreeBSD.org> <CAASDrVnuVfOsJvNuOsAQaHYRQqFenH%2B3=wNDBO5GR5j2KgxsxQ@mail.gmail.com> <114F22EF-61E3-4D75-84FB-9D6E3FBCB8F3@FreeBSD.org> <20150917131333.GN1247@egr.msu.edu> <CAASDrVnNuh%2BjT-%2BZFTriPELfOB78accBqGmrVUE-MDgDPZoicA@mail.gmail.com> <20150917134809.GA3025@c720-r276659>
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On 09/17/2015 09:48, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 10:41:43PM +0900, Lundberg, Johannes escribió: > >> Same here. I would personally definitely buy new hardware from Intel if >> FreeBSD worked on it (not vesa...) >> ... > What dow you have against vesa? I run CURRENT on some Acer C720 > Chromebooks with Haswell chipset in Vesa mode. And you will not note it. > I have never ever had such a fast desktop (KDE4) before. I can live fine > with Vesa until Haswell suport is there. > > matthias BTW, have you tried the xf86-video-scfb driver? It works much better than vesa here. The only catch is you have to be booted UEFI with CSM disabled. Using it on my X1 Carbon, gets 3k resolution properly and everything. Thanks to Glen Barber for bringing that to my attention. -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software / iXsystems Enterprise Storage & Servers Driven By Open Source
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