Screen Resolution (only 800x600 and 640x480 available after upgrade from 13.5 to 14.4)

smnbldwn said:
Thanks Alain, I triple boot this thing, MX's even lighter cousin, AntiX runs well on it. Windows 10 is incredibly slow but does still work with lots of de-cluttering and switching off of telemetry etc. FreeBSD 13.5 was still pretty useful and stable, I used to use it with Jupyter lab and it all worked better than it did with AntiX. I will persevere for a bit on trying to get the graphics working, all I need is a driver that lets me get back to 1024x600. I like the form factor on this thing and it is very light and easy to carry around and gives around 4hrs battery life so not such a bad package.
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AntiX what is output of uname -a? That will tell us if it's able to run 64bit or just 32bit
 
A gentle suggestion:- retire your atom machine, it's done it's time, and spend a small amount of money to get a thinkpad T480, like this one.
www.ebay.co.uk

Lenovo ThinkPad T480 14” i5 8th Gen 8GB 128GB SSD Windows 11 Laptop Sale | eBay UK

Model: T480. Storage: 128GB. ✔ Windows Defender. 1 × Refurbished Laptop. Core specifications (CPU, RAM, Storage, Windows) will be exactly as ordered. Display Size: 14". Ordered by mistake. Change of mind.
www.ebay.co.uk

Someone has even written a nice howto here on installing freebsd 15 on it.
blog.hofstede.it

FreeBSD 15.0 on the ThinkPad T480 — Efficient, Stable, and 8 Hours on Battery

Achieving near-Linux battery life on the T480 while staying purely BSD.
blog.hofstede.it

Sometimes its worth just getting better hardware rather than fighting to keep the old stuff running. :)
 
blackbird9 said:
A gentle suggestion:- retire your atom machine, it's done it's time, and spend a small amount of money to get a thinkpad T480, like this one.
www.ebay.co.uk

Lenovo ThinkPad T480 14” i5 8th Gen 8GB 128GB SSD Windows 11 Laptop Sale | eBay UK

Model: T480. Storage: 128GB. ✔ Windows Defender. 1 × Refurbished Laptop. Core specifications (CPU, RAM, Storage, Windows) will be exactly as ordered. Display Size: 14". Ordered by mistake. Change of mind.
www.ebay.co.uk

Someone has even written a nice howto here on installing freebsd 15 on it.
blog.hofstede.it

FreeBSD 15.0 on the ThinkPad T480 — Efficient, Stable, and 8 Hours on Battery

Achieving near-Linux battery life on the T480 while staying purely BSD.
blog.hofstede.it

Sometimes its worth just getting better hardware rather than fighting to keep the old stuff running. :)
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I have other machines. My use case for the netbook is quite specific. You do have a point but I am seeing if I can run FreeBSD 14 with full display resolution on this thing before I give up and go back to AntiX. I will put 15 on one of my other machines at some point.
 
mer said:
I don't disagree, but if AntiX kernel is 64bit it implies FreeBSD amd64 should be able to run.
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I can confirm it is 32bit. 32 bit Linux and Windows will not install on this device. The N270 has 32 bit architecture, 64bit was introduced with the N330. It would be nice to get the display working as everything else is good and some things work better on FreeBSD than they do on Linux e.g, Jupyter and Ncspot. This is not a serious daily driver but good fun and mega portable. If not I will just delete the FreeBSD partition and continue to dual boot AntiX and Windows 10. I realise that the clock is ticking on this architecture, I also still run a 2005 PowerBook!
 
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Just to ask, it looks like I used to use xf86-video-intel on FB13.5, can anyone confirm that this is no longer available on FB14.4?

Are there any other drivers it would be worth trying before I give up? All I want is full screen resolution, performance in unimportant.

I don't game or edit video on this thing for obvious reasons and if I want to watch movies, I use Linux.

Is there any way to persuade the old 13.5 driver to work with the new set up?
 
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