On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:12:36AM +0100, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Jorge Armendariz > <tedeumjo...@lavabit.com> wrote: > > Hello this is Jorge, > > > > Just wondering I just recently bought my workstation, now I am looking > > into a laptop. From this place, http://laclinux.com/gnu/Laptop they are > > pretty much configuring a ThinkPad W530 (laptop workstation). They give > > you the option of choosing the nVidia card or the Intel HD Graphics > > 4000. Given that the Intel HD Graphics is open source I am wondering how > > friendly it is to puffy? I tried searching the mailing list, and man > > pages. To be honest I kind of did not even know where to look given that > > it is integrated graphics (other than using the search feature could not > > find anything in the usual places). The main reason why I want this > > laptop is because it has upgradeable RAM up to 32 GB. > > > > If there are no drivers written for this yet, how much until you think > > it will be compatible (that is the drivers written for it)? > > Not sure if it's still Sandrybridge > http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/tech-specs/laptop/thinkpad/w-series/w530/ > , but OpenBSD doesn't have KMS yet (just partiall parts) which means > that most probably it will work, just don't expect much 3D power on > Intel. Best option will be to try install latest snapshot if you can > and post dmesg, pcidump -v, usbdevs -v, Xorg.0.log outputs. >
The intel graphics is currently your best bet to be well supported. Even if it is not at the moment the chances are fairly high it will be supported sometimes in the hopefully not to far future. -- :wq Claudio
