Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:51:55 -0800 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: Thor Ablestar <thor@irk.ru> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Lenovo T400s, GUI suggestions needed Message-ID: <Z4qmy3r6lANoP7CV@www.zefox.net> In-Reply-To: <75dede5e-8dab-4c95-8eaa-53a2d6000d39@irk.ru> References: <Z4qWju5k5nDEwq7j@www.zefox.net> <75dede5e-8dab-4c95-8eaa-53a2d6000d39@irk.ru>
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On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 02:29:59AM +0800, Thor Ablestar wrote: > Hello! > > I have a park of Lenovos X61 Tablet and T61. They are predecessors of T400s. > I use XFCE4. > > You need 8 GB RAM for comfortable operation. Internet mentions that it's > possible. 4GB is too small. > That may be an important detail, this machine has only 4GB. It can be upgraded to 8, but I want to test it a little more first. In the meantime problems with the wifi and hard disk have emerged, so those have to be tested first. > According to my experience the GUI problems usually lie in video driver and > not the window manager, so the tuning process begins with vesa driver. It > works slowly, sometimes it gives low resolution but it at least somehow > works almost always. > > Also you should expect some (or lot of) troubles from KMS driver that is > required by T400s Intel GMA video driver. I have wasted some $1000 on > similar problems with Radeon. For Geforce I needed drivers version 370. > > Hope it helps. > > And BTW. According to my experience FreeBSD does not react to power button. > No idea why. Thanks to everyone for the guidance! bob prohaska
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