Hi On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:53 PM, David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote: > Quick test install of NetBSD/amd64 7.99.1 (20141105) on a Thinkpad > T420s to see, and initial impressions are quite good (at least as far > as twm & xterms go :) > > Install went quite smoothly, though it would be nice if sysinst made > is clear that 'use entire disk' and 'use existing partitions' was a > poor selection of options. > > One interesting artifact - I had an external display of higher > resolution than the built in panel connected, and the system mirrored > the two displays, but at the higher resolution, resulting in the > bottom of the screen not being cut off on the internal panel. Non > critical, but possibly not the best default. > > Will download and install NetBSD-7 onto a spare disk and build up a > set of packages including firefox and a slightly more heavyweight > window manager to see how it performs under load, but its very nice to > see NetBSD supporting the native display resolutions out of the box. > > (And another belated thank you to gsutre's earlier netbsd-drmgem port > which made my Thinkpad usable at all under netbsd-6 :) > > David
Can you share your screenshots ? what is the max resolution ? Regards -- Francisco Valladolid H. -- http://blog.bsdguy.net - Jesus Christ follower.
