[talk] Re New Laptop

[Scott Robbins]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 07:35:31PM +0530, Sujit K M wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 7:07 AM, fire crow <fire at firecrow.com> wrote:
> > I have the the Lenovo 100S 14 inch ($200), and iwm wifi works well, the
> > intel graphics driver does not work with the i915 kernel module yet so the
> > only option is vesa, and I had to install from a usb current image to get it
> > to work with efi.
> 
> Don't you think vesa is outdated to use in something like 2016+ Laptop.

I know you're not asking me, but yes.  The Intel driver is really far
behind. You may have better luck with OpenBSD as far as that goes. See my
earlier post and link.
If using EFI, you may be able to use scfb
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/SCFB

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