adamk said:Be vary wary of any new laptop with nvidia as they almost all support Optimus, which renders the nvidia GPU non-functional on both Linux and FreeBSD.
Adam
kreyszig said:ok, so let say that I don't really need an Nvidia GPU on that laptop. What I really need though is to have support for 3D acceleration (for Compiz), an external monitor and be able to switch off the screen and the backlight.
adamk said:OK, well in that case bear in mind that the latest Intel HD GPUs and the latest Radeon HD GPUs (HD5xxx and higher) have no acceleration under FreeBSD.
kreyszig said:Hmm,
if laptops with Nvidia cards and the ones with GMA500* GPUs are not supported, that pretty much means that no new intel-based laptop is supported by FreeBSD...
Should it take long to add support for GMA500* chipsets to FreeBSD?
DutchDaemon said:Saying that 'no nvidia cards are supported' is taking this a bit far. For example my HP Compaq with NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M works absolutely fine. You just have to make sure you know the exact type, and whether or not there are FreeBSD drivers for that type.
adamk said:I think the only way you will know if it works with the vesa driver (which is your only possible option) is to try it. I'm going to guess "no" however. I'd like to be proven wrong
Adam
kreyszig said:My primary concern is to have suspend (...)
vermaden said:Does SUSPEND work on any laptop with FreeBSD?