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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
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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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