Re: freebsd-mobile Digest, Vol 411, Issue 3

Re:I like Dell xps 15,thinkpad is not good.

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>   1. Re: Any experience with ThinkPad T420/T520  (Kevin Oberman)
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> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 08:22:43 -0700
> From: "Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Any experience with ThinkPad T420/T520
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>> Sender: Bernhard Schmidt <[email protected]>
>> From: Bernhard Schmidt <[email protected]>
>> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 07:56:19 +0200
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>> On Monday, May 30, 2011 18:54:31 Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> > > Sender: Bernhard Schmidt <[email protected]>
>> > > From: Bernhard Schmidt <[email protected]>
>> > > Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 09:15:53 +0200
>> > >
>> > > On Sunday, May 29, 2011 18:53:43 Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> > > > I'm about to order  new laptop and I am looking at a Lenovo ThinkPad
>> > > > T520. Does anyone have experience with this model? Anything that should
>> > > > cause alarm? I plan on getting the nVidia 4200N graphics which should
>> > > > work with the nVidia driver.
>> > >
>> > > What's the current state of "Optimus" support? Last time I've
>> > > checked the NVIDIA driver had no support for that so you might
>> > > be stuck with the Intel GPU.
>> > >
>> > Oops! I typed too quickly. I just found te thread on Optimus support and
>> > I'm scanning it now.
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>> Honestly, I have no clue about the details. The only thing I know
>> is that there are 2 ways to switch between GPUs, a real hardware
>> switch (which should work on every system) and plain software, which
>> didn't last time I've checked, on either Linux or FreeBSD. That
>> bothered me quite a bit, decided to buy a "gamer notebook" which
>> clearly stated that it has no Optimus therefore.
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> Bernhard,
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> I have spent some time researching this and it looks like it is partly
> resolved under Linux. (They call it solved, but it's really a kludge
> that I would hardly call a final resolution). The "fix" is mostly to
> ACPI and very Linux specific, as far as I can tell. Not that doing the
> same under FreeBSD would not be possible, but it will take some work by
> someone with both more ACPI and graphics knowledge than I have.
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> I decided to save a few bucks and ordered the T520 without the nVidia...
> Just straight Intel which will be pretty limited, too, until the KMS and
> GEM work is available. Sigh.
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> Thanks again for the heads up!
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