From nobody Fri Jan 17 18:29:59 2025 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4YZSvt2BRGz5lJJL for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:30:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thor@irk.ru) Received: from mail.irk.ru (relay2.dsi.ru [195.206.40.175]) (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 4YZSvr5JWwz3gVg for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:30:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thor@irk.ru) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of thor@irk.ru designates 195.206.40.175 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=thor@irk.ru; dmarc=none Received: from [94.154.80.101] (port=47343 helo=[192.168.1.245]) by mail.irk.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.86 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1tYr6d-000PCT-Sc for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2025 02:30:07 +0800 Message-ID: <75dede5e-8dab-4c95-8eaa-53a2d6000d39@irk.ru> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 02:29:59 +0800 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Lenovo T400s, GUI suggestions needed To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: Content-Language: en-US From: Thor Ablestar In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.32 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.86)[-0.864]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.77)[-0.774]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.58)[-0.580]; ONCE_RECEIVED(0.20)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:8345, ipnet:195.206.32.0/19, country:RU]; RCVD_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-current@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[irk.ru]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[] X-Spamd-Bar: -- X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4YZSvr5JWwz3gVg 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. 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. Anatoly On 1/18/25 01:42, bob prohaska wrote: > I've started playing with an old Lenovo T400s laptop using > FreeBSD-current. The initial install worked perfectly on an > external USB drive. > > Can anybody suggest a suitable X11-wm to try on this quite > elderly laptop? LXQT failed with a core dump, next I'll try > twm while hoping for a better suggestion. > > Thanks for reading, > > bob prohaska > >