Any chance for ThinkPad T440?

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Mon Jul 21 15:54:26 UTC 2014


No, it's a totally different thing. They included the IDs for the
devices but none of the code.

So it's not going to have wifi by 10.1. Sorry. Noone has stepped up
with a driver.


-a


On 21 July 2014 07:28, Robert David <robert.david.public at gmail.com> wrote:
> This sounds interesting. On X240 the vesa performance seems to be ok in
> MATE desktop. But problem is the lack of display configuration (eg: not
> any external monitor).
>
> Linux acpi driver also handles some extra keys that FreeBSD does not,
> for example brightness. This seems to be portable.
>
> The last think is the wifi card intel 7260, but iwl driver development
> branch seems to handle this as well (did not test). So I think it will
> be possible to use these notebooks maybe even in 10.1 release (I hope).
>
> Robert.
>
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 13:15:36 -0400
> Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On 9 July 2014 10:43, Jan Kokemüller <jan.kokemueller at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Currently a newer Intel driver is being ported
>> > (https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Update%20i915%20GPU%20driver%20to%20Linux%203.8)
>> > that will support the Haswell chips.
>>
>> Another option which should be available soon will be to use
>> xf86-video-scfb on top of vt_efifb, after UEFI booting.  It won't have
>> acceleration but should be acceptable for basic use.
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