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No suspend/hibernate (suspend is available, but fiddly and does not work with X). Apart from that I've been quite happy to this day since last January when I m

by gkya 10y ago

No suspend/hibernate (suspend is available, but fiddly and does not work with X). Apart from that I've been quite happy to this day since last January when I moved to FreeBSD. Though I intend to check-out OpenBSD when I'll have time, as AFAIK it is more laptop-friendly (has working suspend and/or hibernate). The BSD land is better than any linux distro with its docs and community, and the OSes are really clean and well put-together from the bottom up. Only Arch can come close to them, but then it has no stable releases and breaking changes are often. BSDs run nearly all the software that GNU/Linux runs, and ports tree is exhaustive. I only have Emacs and Xombrero that I build and install seperately because I'm patching them.

lorenzfx 10y ago
Really depends on your machine. Suspend (and wakeup!) works great on my Lenovo X220, no fiddling needed at all.
- gkya 10y ago
  With X? Because the docs themselves say it doesn't work well with X [1]. Would you mind sharing your relevant config? [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/SuspendResume https://wiki.freebsd.org/SuspendResume
  - lorenzfx 10y ago
    No, I don't mind at all, but what would the relevant configuration files be? As I said, there was no fiddling necessary. The only thing I remember doing is putting `echo kern.vty=vt >> /boot/loader.conf`.
    - floatboth 10y ago
      vt is the default anyway! (At least on EFI)
      - lorenzfx 10y ago
        Didn't know that, thanks! I believe it wasn't when I started using the X220, but I'm not sure either way.
      - gkya 10y ago
        That is on 11.0. AFAIK it wasn't in prior releases.
  - mioelnir 10y ago
    It really depends on the system. I recently got my hands on a Acer Aspire E-571 (Haswell i3-4030U) and suspend/resume in X with i915kms literally just worked installing FreeBSD 11.0-RC3 from installer and xorg/xdm/openbox from packages, no config file touched (apart from adjusting the keyboard layout and setting the lid_close_state sysctl to S3). What does not work on it yet is the Elan trackpad, since it is the version that is connected via i2c.

by gkya 10y ago

lorenzfx 10y ago

Really depends on your machine. Suspend (and wakeup!) works great on my Lenovo X220, no fiddling needed at all.

gkya 10y ago
With X? Because the docs themselves say it doesn't work well with X [1]. Would you mind sharing your relevant config? [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/SuspendResume https://wiki.freebsd.org/SuspendResume
- lorenzfx 10y ago
  No, I don't mind at all, but what would the relevant configuration files be? As I said, there was no fiddling necessary. The only thing I remember doing is putting `echo kern.vty=vt >> /boot/loader.conf`.
  - floatboth 10y ago
    vt is the default anyway! (At least on EFI)
    - lorenzfx 10y ago
      Didn't know that, thanks! I believe it wasn't when I started using the X220, but I'm not sure either way.
    - gkya 10y ago
      That is on 11.0. AFAIK it wasn't in prior releases.
- mioelnir 10y ago
  It really depends on the system. I recently got my hands on a Acer Aspire E-571 (Haswell i3-4030U) and suspend/resume in X with i915kms literally just worked installing FreeBSD 11.0-RC3 from installer and xorg/xdm/openbox from packages, no config file touched (apart from adjusting the keyboard layout and setting the lid_close_state sysctl to S3). What does not work on it yet is the Elan trackpad, since it is the version that is connected via i2c.