<div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 21, 2017 1:19 AM, "Scott Robbins" <<a href="mailto:scottro11@gmail.com">scottro11@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 04:21:18AM +0000, fire crow wrote:<br>
> Hi thanks for the tips, 12.0 current from the svn head and drm-next-kmod > from ports didnt load up when vt initialized on boot. Im currently looking > at the vesa kmod, getting this error that im trying to work out. > > $ kldload vesa > module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0x< f and numbers>, 0) error 19 > sysctl_unregister_oid: failed to unregister sysctl I have a page, by now probably outdated (and I've been really ill, so no time or energy to follow up But it seems as as if the docs wound up in 5 different places and are inconsistent these days. Eventually, using <a href="http://srobb.net/freebsdintel.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://srobb.net/freebsdintel.<wbr>html</a> got me having a so so Intel integrated card experience. Not as good as Linux. For example, if I<br>
got out of X after it started, I would have to ssh in a reboot to get<br>
access again, that sort of thing.<br>
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Same issues with Intel wireless dual band cards, 50MBS speeds on LAN with<br>
Linux, 2 MB on BSD. (This is mentioned at some places in man pages)<br></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ive been able to get intel wireless working with the combination of if_iwm and iwm3160fw modules. The dedicated graphics on the atom chip is giving me the headaches</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~fire</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have not had health to follow up on this for about a month though, so<br>
maybe it's improved. However from what I've seen, FreeBSD, and even OpenBSD, are requiring more time, energy and research to use as a nice laptop.<br>
Conversely, my desktops, (NVidas) are just about as good with FreeBSD.<br>
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But even 2-3 year old laptops give me problems.<br>
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Then again, I don't know how much we give up in blobs and the like to get<br>
the Linux stuff to work easily. I haven't tried any Atheros cards, and<br>
won't have a chance to for awhile,but as far as wireless Intel, the dual<br>
band stuff for iwm isn't working well.<br>
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If this sounds as trollish and awful as it may look to me, apologies.<br>
Again, long period of illness right now and sometimes overly medicated.<br>
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But for a laptop in a NOC to get into a server, Free/OpenBSD will be fine<br>
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For a smooth scrollin', web browsin', fast graphic thing, might be better<br>
off saving that for your workstation. (With NVidia)<br>
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There are lots of threads on the Intel stuff on forums.<br>
Some folks got things to work. One person feels the problem is that<br>
FreeBSD developers use Mac but OpenBSD people do it right. But, if you get<br>
lucky you may find someone with similar hardware who solved your problem.<br>
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