I'm trying out FreeBSD 10.1 on a Haswell i7 (intel HD4600 only video) system and I'm getting pretty frustrated. (It's some kind of Clevo laptop rebadged by System76 as "Kudu Professional," whatever that means.)
Is there some central repository of COMMON PROBLEMS and SOLUTIONS?
The handbook does not seem to address problems such as: grub/BSD boot loader troubles, power management (video brightness, hard drive spindown, suspend/reusme), automounting removable media, making fonts not look like hell, guessing what modules are called.....
Right now, I have Xorg working tolerably but I can not adjust brightness: acpi_something module loaded but xbrightness doesn't do anything. The brightness up/down (Fn+F8, Fn+F9) keys do not generate x events.
I installed mate with pkg. Not sure what to do with HAL/DBUS. Isn't there some simple way to get removable media to automount, without making changes to well-hidden text files I'll forget about?
I don't think there is video acceleration, even 2D, moving large windows looks kind of bad with some tearing.
UI fonts look fine but SOME fonts are not antialiased in Firefox. Not sure how to fix.
My Crucial M550 msata SSD runs VERY hot according to smartctl. It's a known problem with a workaround in Linux. In Linux, I can enable aggressive link power management using TLP and it rarely tops 50C. Is there something comparable to TLP in FreeBSD?
Is there some central repository of COMMON PROBLEMS and SOLUTIONS?
The handbook does not seem to address problems such as: grub/BSD boot loader troubles, power management (video brightness, hard drive spindown, suspend/reusme), automounting removable media, making fonts not look like hell, guessing what modules are called.....
Right now, I have Xorg working tolerably but I can not adjust brightness: acpi_something module loaded but xbrightness doesn't do anything. The brightness up/down (Fn+F8, Fn+F9) keys do not generate x events.
I installed mate with pkg. Not sure what to do with HAL/DBUS. Isn't there some simple way to get removable media to automount, without making changes to well-hidden text files I'll forget about?
I don't think there is video acceleration, even 2D, moving large windows looks kind of bad with some tearing.
UI fonts look fine but SOME fonts are not antialiased in Firefox. Not sure how to fix.
My Crucial M550 msata SSD runs VERY hot according to smartctl. It's a known problem with a workaround in Linux. In Linux, I can enable aggressive link power management using TLP and it rarely tops 50C. Is there something comparable to TLP in FreeBSD?