Re: x220 notes

2012-03-07 Thread Vrachnis Ilias-Dimitrios 

On 03/07/2012 01:25, Любомир Григоров wrote:

I will be buying a X220 soon and have some questions:

1. Which wireless has better support?

ThinkPad 11b/g/n Wireless (Realtek RTL8192SE / RTL8188CE)
Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000

2. I've read bad reviews about webcam having poor quality on GNU/Linux, so
I would assume it will be the same on FreeBSD with webcamd and not worth
the $30? (which also frees up space for 3x3 antenna)

3. Any disadvantages in usage for turning off the UEFI?

4. How far is the AMD64 kernel suspend/resume? What do you mean by video
doesn't resume?

5. I'll be getting the IPS screen and want to make sure all the brightness
issues won't f it up. Is there yet a working way to control brightness
without interrupting the fan?


Hi Любомир,

i'll be answering the 1,2 questions from my experience with the X220:

I bought my X220 with the Realtek wireless and the webcam.

I tried running -CURRENT a couple of months ago, (just after the bump to 
10-CURRENT) but the wifi was a no-go, so yeah, I'd suggest getting the 
intel adapter too.


As for the camera, I've been running Arch linux, and the performance 
(resolution, refresh rate) have been fine, as far as I know at least.
I've used it for some skype conferencing and it worked fine. No 
flickering, no issues at all. Without knowing about the webcamd 
compatibility of the specific model, I am happy about choosing the 
camera instead of the antenna, as I never have any problems connecting 
to my access point, even when I am far away with 4-5 walls in between.


As for the rest, I can't comment on, as I did not install freebsd at 
all, and as such I did not test the other parts. The wireless was a big 
issue for me you see.


just my 0.02$

-vid
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Re: nvidia-driver 195.22 use horribly broken on amd64 between r206173 and

2010-05-25 Thread Vrachnis Ilias-Dimitrios 
On 05/26/2010 12:00 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
 Just reporting the fact that nvidia-driver 195.22 is horribly
 broken between r206173 and r208486 (my machine consistency livelocks
 at X11 startup); the latest driver is still broken as well with the
 same symptoms. I realize that's a huge revision difference, and I'll
 definitely try and track down the root cause via a binary search, but
 I wanted to make sure that other folks knew of the issue and don't
 upgrade and their systems break horribly as well.
 I suspect that the locking changes are causing the issue, but I
 don't have any hard data to backup my claim at this time.
 Thanks,
 -Garrett

same goes for nvidia-driver-96. nv seems unaffected though. (thankfully
i rarely need X on that machine)
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