xf86-video-intel upgrade, anyone?

[Jan Henrik Sylvester]

On 01/05/2011 22:02, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> I would be interested by the T410s, that can be ordered with the Intel
> Centrino Wireless-N 1000 card and the NVIDIA NVS Optimus Graphics 512MB
> (I am not sure if it is the same GPU that you have). Assuming for now
> that the Nvidia GPU is the same, do you think that would be a winning
> combo (for 3D acceleration and suspend+resume)?

My T510 has "NVIDIA NVS 3100M Optimus / 512MB", which is the same as the 
two T410s with Nvidia I just checked. It is supposed to be a decent 
entry level discrete notebook graphic. The FreeBSD 3D performance is 
good enough for what I do work related like occasional Matlab graphics 
(heck, even a casual game of Starcraft 2 on 1920x1080 is fine with i386 
wine on amd64 and GoogleEarth is no problem, either). Of course, the 
"Quadro FX880M" in the W510 is probably much better, but since you are 
looking into T410s, you seem to have other priorities. As I said, 
suspend/resume works currently -- that is of course S3 and not S4 (I do 
not think there are recent laptops with S4BIOS).

As for wlan, I have "Intel WiFi Link 6300 AGN", which is available for 
T410s, too -- that is some "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 6000" if you look into 
if_iwn.c. In 8.1-RELEASE, there are also two lines of "Intel(R) 
PRO/Wireless 1000" in if_iwn.c -- I would expect "Centrino Wireless-N 
1000" to work. Of course, I do not have any experience with that.

Do not expect a miracle, though. Many details of notebooks are much 
easier to get to work on Linux for example, but a mainline OS would be 
boring. ;-)

Cheers,
Jan Henrik