From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Thu Sep 17 15:02:10 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351C89CFAEC for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:02:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@pcbsd.org) Received: from barracuda.ixsystems.com (mail.ixsystems.com [69.198.165.135]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.ixsystems.com", Issuer "Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 16E5E10CD for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:02:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@pcbsd.org) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1442502127-08ca04166b02d30002-XDYc8F Received: from [192.168.0.51] (75-130-56-30.static.kgpt.tn.charter.com [75.130.56.30]) by barracuda.ixsystems.com with ESMTP id aLtFyT58BJaNSd4R (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:02:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: kris@pcbsd.org X-Barracuda-AUTH-User: kris@pcbsd.org X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 75.130.56.30 X-ASG-Whitelist: Client Subject: Re: Intel Haswell support - Any updates? To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: Intel Haswell support - Any updates? References: <55FA7324.5010603@icloud.com> <09A515F2-44BA-4DF0-9792-D4C56EEB9D7C@FreeBSD.org> <114F22EF-61E3-4D75-84FB-9D6E3FBCB8F3@FreeBSD.org> <20150917131333.GN1247@egr.msu.edu> <20150917134809.GA3025@c720-r276659> From: Kris Moore X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <55FAD5EF.5030001@pcbsd.org> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:02:07 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150917134809.GA3025@c720-r276659> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Barracuda-Connect: 75-130-56-30.static.kgpt.tn.charter.com[75.130.56.30] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1442502128 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 X-Barracuda-URL: https://10.2.0.41:443/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at ixsystems.com X-Barracuda-BRTS-Status: 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 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: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:02:10 -0000 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