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What laptop are you using for freebsd? Also what desktop environment? I've tried forever to get a BSD laptop setup working.
by aphextron 7y ago
What laptop are you using for freebsd? Also what desktop environment? I've tried forever to get a BSD laptop setup working.
- asveikau 7y agoLenovo X1 Carbon 6th gen. I don't use a big "desktop" like gnome, just a normal/light X setup resembling the 1990s. Lately it's dwm. Sometimes I do others. Some things that might save you some time in loader.conf: acpi_video_load="YES" acpi_ibm_load="YES" Also, had to set ACPI to "Linux" mode in bios. After that plus the two lines above, suspend works. Also, xf86-video-intel from ports. Wifi is slow but I'm ok with that. Long ago I used OpenBSD on a laptop, and in my experience, with thinkpads, it has a bit more of a "just works" feel than FreeBSD for hardware support. But I'm on freebsd because of a few things that don't work on openbsd these days [like linux binary emulation].
- jonhohle 7y agoFor what value of working? I have a Lenovo X220 that works mostly fine. Sleeps on lid close, WiFi, trackpad. I don’t use it often, I keep it as a disposable backup, but it works.