haswell supported? (dell latitude 3340)

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bris.ac.uk
Fri Apr 24 14:33:02 UTC 2015


>From guru at unixarea.de Fri Apr 24 09:20:55 2015
>El día Friday, April 24, 2015 a las 09:03:14AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht escribió:
>
>> >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.
>> 
>> Yes, I did the same.
>> Ideally I want to attch an hdmi monitor to
>> this laptop, because the laptop's screen is small.
>> But I guess vesa driver does not support this?
>> At so far I haven't succeded.
>
>I run vesa on an Acer C720 Chromebook with 11-CURRENT too; HDMI worked
>out of the box.
>
>	matthias

Mattias, thanks for this.

My hdmi monitor thinks there's no signal
coming from the laptop. Is HDMI support
related to the graphics card at all?

Thanks

Anton


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