Any news on the brightness? My X220 came and FreeBSD installs and boots fine with MBR. But like you said brightness control is not working and I am stuck at max. Even with me 9cell battery, it brings it down to 5 hours instead of 8-9 with a slightly dimmer setting.
P.S. I didn't have to touch anything in BIOS. Ditch the webcam...it's grainy under linux, probably would be the same > under FreeBSD...haven't even tried. > > Intel wireless is THE way to go...that Realtek is barely supported on > Linux (I believe 8192SU is still staging drivers...) > > FreeBSD only legacy boots, however "UEFI USB Support" must be on to allow > USB booting for some reason. > > I have IPS...it's very nice, but still no brightness yet. I'll get a > chance to look at again this weekend most likely. I think it's just an > issue with our acpi_ibm that isn't talking to the embedded controller right. > > Resume works, but the screen is not on. I can now confirm it is *off* and > not just "dimmed/no backlight". Setting BIOS to use an external monitor and > disabling internal exhibits same behavior as internal display, i.e external > monitor set as BIOS primary does not come back from power save. I have > tried typing dpms force commands, did not work. > > Once resume & brightness work, it will be great for FreeBSD...everything > else seemed fine, although I have not used fingerprint reader or card > reader... > > An interesting note is that the BIOS does whitelist the wireless card, and > the wwan slot defaults to being a mSATA until it detects a whitelisted USB > ID or perhaps has no PCIe lines...not sure but my ral card I'm working with > will not detect in the second slot at all. The slot may start as PCIe only > in earlier bios, haven't checked (google x220 egpu & x220 msata issue). > > Matt > > -- Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam) _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
