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

[mer]

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.

AntiX what is output of uname -a? That will tell us if it's able to run 64bit or just 32bit

 

[SirDice]

what is output of uname -a? That will tell us if it's able to run 64bit or just 32bit

That will simply show the architecture of the kernel, not what the CPU is capable of.

 

[mer]

That will simply show the architecture of the kernel, not what the CPU is capable of.

I don't disagree, but if AntiX kernel is 64bit it implies FreeBSD amd64 should be able to run.

 

[blackbird9]

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.

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.

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.

 

[SirDice]

it's done it's time

To be honest, that CPU never had its time. It was utterly under powered from the start. The only positive thing it had was its power consumption.