Intel Haswell support - Any updates?

[Shawn Webb]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 08:54:37PM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 17 Sep 2015, at 20:23, Russell L. Carter <rcarter at pinyon.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> On 09/17/15 10:40, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >> El d????a Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 11:02:07AM -0400, Kris Moore escribi????:
> >> 
> >>> On 09/17/2015 09:48, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >>>> El d????a Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 10:41:43PM +0900, Lundberg, Johannes escribi????:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> Same here. I would personally definitely buy new hardware from Intel if
> >>>>> FreeBSD worked on it (not vesa...)
> >>>>> ...
> >>>> What dow you have against vesa? I run CURRENT on some Acer C720
> >>>> Chromebooks with Haswell chipset in Vesa mode. And you will not note it.
> >>>> I have never ever had such a fast desktop (KDE4) before. I can live fine
> >>>> with Vesa until Haswell suport is there.
> >>>> 
> >>>>    matthias
> >>> 
> >>> BTW, have you tried the xf86-video-scfb driver? It works much better
> >>> than vesa here. The only catch is you have to be booted UEFI with CSM
> >>> disabled. Using it on my X1 Carbon, gets 3k resolution properly and
> >>> everything. Thanks to Glen Barber for bringing that to my attention.
> >> 
> >> The Chromebook Acer C720 does not has UEFI; it runs Coreboot with
> >> SeaBIOS as payload.
> >> 
> >> The Xorg runs fine without any xorg.conf file, just detects the video as
> >> Vesa with 1366x768 resolution, the max of the 11" screen of this
> >> netbook.
> > 
> > Do you have 802.11n and hibernate working on that c720?  I put linux on
> > mine for that reason.  Although despite immense efforts I can't get
> > the trackpad to be detected.  I tried bringing up 10.2 on it but
> > couldn't get it to boot.  These things are just awesome.  4G memory
> > + i3 + 6hr battery for $240 delivered.
> > 
> 
> It's all in CURRENT, see http://blog.grem.de/pages/c720.html.
> 
> Brightness control is done through graphics/intel-backlight (should work on other Intel GPUs as well). Auto-brightness control works as well (using the new isl driver).

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THAT BEFORE?!? I'm happy to report that's
working on my Lenovo Y50-70 laptop. Thanks for the hint.

> 
> HDMI works in VESA mode (mirrors the internal display). It suspends but won't resume, probably due to video, I was never able to really figure that one out. Tried an early version of 915i about half a year ago with limited success, will try again at/after EuroBSDCon.
> 
> There are a couple of people who helped me testing and most of them seem quite happy with the results (no suspend/resume being the only real caveat).
> 
> - Michael
> 
> > Russell
> > 
> >>    matthias
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