From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Thu Sep 17 18:31:40 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 8B0069CF43E for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:31:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rcarter@pinyon.org) Received: from quine.pinyon.org (acipenser.esturion.net [65.101.5.252]) (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 5FDAA1E23 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:31:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rcarter@pinyon.org) Received: by quine.pinyon.org (Postfix, from userid 122) id 8EA781602B3; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:23:08 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on quine.pinyon.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from feyerabend.n1.pinyon.org (acipenser.esturion.net [65.101.5.252]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by quine.pinyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A136B1600C6 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:23:06 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: Intel Haswell support - Any updates? To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <09A515F2-44BA-4DF0-9792-D4C56EEB9D7C@FreeBSD.org> <114F22EF-61E3-4D75-84FB-9D6E3FBCB8F3@FreeBSD.org> <20150917131333.GN1247@egr.msu.edu> <20150917134809.GA3025@c720-r276659> <55FAD5EF.5030001@pcbsd.org> <20150917174035.GA1730@c720-r276659> From: "Russell L. Carter" Message-ID: <55FB050A.2080500@pinyon.org> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:23:06 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150917174035.GA1730@c720-r276659> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 18:31:40 -0000 On 09/17/15 10:40, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 11:02:07AM -0400, Kris Moore escribió: > >> 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. > > The Chromebook Acer C720 does not has UEFI; it runs Coreboot with > SeaBIOS as payload. > > The Xorg runs fine without any xorg.conf file, just detects the video as > Vesa with 1366x768 resolution, the max of the 11" screen of this > netbook. Do you have 802.11n and hibernate working on that c720? I put linux on mine for that reason. Although despite immense efforts I can't get the trackpad to be detected. I tried bringing up 10.2 on it but couldn't get it to boot. These things are just awesome. 4G memory + i3 + 6hr battery for $240 delivered. Russell > matthias >