What is evdev and autoloading?
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at puchar.net
Mon Feb 18 18:13:56 UTC 2019
> motivated me to do this:
>
> 1) my observation that many developers at conferences and online were using
> macOS as their primary desktop environment. when comparing this to the
> OpenBSD and Linux community I felt pretty embarrassed, but it did explain the
> stagnant nature of our graphics subsystem. people seemed afraid to touch
> things due the brittle nature of its hardware support.
>
> 2) i was in need to an *affordable* machine with a warranty. fortunately
> there are many affordable laptops at staples, best-buy and amazon - but they
> were all post haswell systems, rendering them basically useless from a
> FreeBSD perspective.
I've bought recently (like half year ago) cheapest laptop available.
Everything supported with FreeBSD out of the box, except little problem
with sound but
dev.hdac.0.polling=1
made it work.
What a problem? Even lowest end today computer is really high end for
normal programs.
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