From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 24 15:08:22 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 10B8A212 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:08:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bede.qeng-ho.org (bede.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (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 A4C871740 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:08:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by bede.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id t3OF8I2f053772; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:08:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <553A5C62.6090107@qeng-ho.org> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:08:18 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mexas@bris.ac.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, guru@unixarea.de Subject: Re: haswell supported? (dell latitude 3340) References: <201504241432.t3OEWqlK025634@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <201504241432.t3OEWqlK025634@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:08:22 -0000 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 keypress is supposed to work for this? -- Those who do not learn from computing history are doomed to GOTO 1