haswell supported? (dell latitude 3340)

[Arthur Chance]

On 23/04/2015 16:59, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I was given at work Dell Latitude 3340 laptop.
> I can't seem to get X to work under 10.1-release.
> On closer examination I see it uses Haswell chip:
>
> vgapci0 at pci0:0:2:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x061f1028 chip=0x0a168086 rev=0x0b hdr=0x00
>      vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>      device     = 'Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller'
>      class      = display
>      subclass   = VGA
>
> which is "not supported" according to
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
>
> Can somebody please confirm this is indeed the case
> and graphics will not work on this laptop.
> Is it supported in -current?

My desktop has a Haswell CPU, and I use the vesa driver for now (with 
the VT system). I can get 2560x1440 resolution out of it with no 
problem, and as I don't do anything that needs advanced graphics it's 
good enough for my purposes.

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