Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:08:18 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: mexas@bris.ac.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, guru@unixarea.de Subject: Re: haswell supported? (dell latitude 3340) Message-ID: <553A5C62.6090107@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <201504241432.t3OEWqlK025634@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201504241432.t3OEWqlK025634@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On 24/04/2015 15:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >>From guru@unixarea.de Fri Apr 24 09:20:55 2015 >> El día Friday, April 24, 2015 a las 09:03:14AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht escribió: >> >>>> My desktop has a Haswell CPU, and I use the vesa driver for now (with >>>> the VT system). I can get 2560x1440 resolution out of it with no >>>> problem, and as I don't do anything that needs advanced graphics it's >>>> good enough for my purposes. >>> >>> Yes, I did the same. >>> Ideally I want to attch an hdmi monitor to >>> this laptop, because the laptop's screen is small. >>> But I guess vesa driver does not support this? >>> At so far I haven't succeded. >> >> I run vesa on an Acer C720 Chromebook with 11-CURRENT too; HDMI worked >> out of the box. >> >> matthias > > Mattias, thanks for this. > > My hdmi monitor thinks there's no signal > coming from the laptop. Is HDMI support > related to the graphics card at all? Isn't the switching between internal/external/both displays on laptops usually handled by the BIOS? Have you tried whichever Fn+F<N> keypress is supposed to work for this? -- Those who do not learn from computing history are doomed to GOTO 1
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