xf86-video-intel upgrade, anyone?

Pierre-Luc Drouin pldrouin at pldrouin.net
Thu Jan 6 00:22:49 UTC 2011


On 01/05/11 18:48, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
> On 01/05/2011 23:04, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
>> I don't mind too much if stuff like the camera, the finger print reader
>
> Camera works fine, but not in Skype, though. Finger print reader is 
> detected by sane-find-scanner, but I doubt there is a driver for it.
>
>> or the card reader does not work, as long as 3D acceleration and
>
> Card reader works, even if it is not very fast, 3D acceleration works.
>
>> suspend/resume are stable. The only other thing that would be very
>
> suspend/resume work, even though that is only possible for a few month 
> now. Since then, it has never failed to resume for me, but I rarely 
> use it.

When you say that it works, does it require to turn off SMP or anything 
that affects performance or battery life?
>
>> useful to me is to be able to use the TouchPad to scroll (either using
>> the right edge or two-finger scroll). Should this work?
>
> Edge scrolling works reliably, two-finger scrolling and other 
> two-finger gestures basically work for some reason unknown to me 
> simply with hw.psm.synaptics_support="1" in /boot/loader.conf -- but 
> they are not really usable with this setup. Probably, I would have to 
> use the x.org Synaptics driver, which did not work immediately due to 
> the combo track point/touchpad device as far as I remember.

ok that's good then...
>
>
>> What kind of battery life do you think I should expect using the Nvidia
>> GPU and the 6 cell battery (if the CPU load is minimal). Lenovo mentions
>> "Up to 4.8 hours of battery life", but it will be less than that
>> obviously without switchable graphics...
>
> I do not think you will get anywhere near 4.8 hours. It depends very 
> much on tweaking as in http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption 
> , turning off wlan, lowering brightness, sending the HD to sleep, and 
> so on. With just the CPU tweaking and not disabling any devices, you 
> will probably not even reach 2 hours. I have never tried to optimize 
> that.
>
> Cheers,
> Jan Henrik
Thanks


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