Anyone has any experience with running FreeBSD on it? I'm especially curious whether Fn brightness keys and/or acpi_video module are working... It has intel X3100 graphics card.
Andy_Kosela said:Are you sure Fn brightness keys work out of the box both in the console and X? My company is willing to buy me any laptop I want and I'm looking for a model which will work flawlessly with FreeBSD, especially Fn brightness keys which usually don't work. On my current 6715b (Turion64 X2, radeon) they are working very nicely, although I would prefer Intel Core2 Duo based CPU.
Andy_Kosela said:Also what about modern Dell Latitude E6500? It has NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 160M5 256MB DDR35 or
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
Andy_Kosela said:hmm it seems I would have to use NVIDIA drivers for Dell Precision M4400 which I don't like too much (I would prefer using default Xorg drivers).
Why get tired working on such low resolution?Andy_Kosela said:Although I need 1280x800 (WXGA) and not WUXGA.
I do not own T61, so cannot canfirm that, maybe someone with such model will take part in this thread.Andy_Kosela said:Can you confirm whether Fn brightness keys work in T61?
vermaden said:So do not buy M4400.
I personally have 1440x900 I cannot even imagine working on 1280x800.
Andy_Kosela said:Anyone has any experience with running FreeBSD on it? I'm especially curious whether Fn brightness keys and/or acpi_video module are working... It has intel X3100 graphics card.
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness: 100
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.fullpower: 100
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.levels: 100 51 30 37 44 51 58 65 72 79 86 93 100
kenv | egrep 'smbios\.bios'
smbios.bios.reldate="01/15/2009"
smbios.bios.vendor="Hewlett-Packard"
smbios.bios.version="68DDU Ver. F.15"
Sure, it is *very difficult* to get 1680x1050 using vesa ;o).Andy_Kosela said:devel, thanks for confirmation. I assume you are using intel(4) driver.
Andy_Kosela said:Can you make a screenshot of your terminal in 1440x900?
xterm*font: -*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
urxvt.font: -*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
Originally Posted by Andy_Kosela
Can you confirm whether Fn brightness keys work in T61?
I do not own T61, so cannot canfirm that, maybe someone with such model will take part in this thread.