Re: new laptop

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 12:42:30PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Someone just acquired a Dell Latitude 5300. I just netbooted it
> using /usr/mdec/bootx64.efi to see what the hardware was.
> 
> cpu0: "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHz"
> cpu0: Intel 7th or 8th gen Core (Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake) or Xeon E (Coffee Lake) (686-class), 7524.82 MHz
> 
> so
> 
> genfb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 8086 product 3ea0 (rev. 0x00)
> genfb0: framebuffer at 0x80000000, size 800x600, depth 32, stride 3200
> wsdisplay0 at genfb0 kbdmux 1: console (default, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
> drm at genfb0 not configured
> 
> and no X.
> "vesa: Ignoring device with a bound kernel driver" ?

Someone else just acquired an optiplex

cpu0: "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz"
cpu0: Intel 7th or 8th gen Core (Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake) or Xeon E (Coffee Lake) (686-class), 3193.31 MHz

vga0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 8086 product 3e92 (rev. 0x00)
wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
drm at vga0 not configured

but X on -current/amd64 just works :-) (netbooted, startx, writing this)

[just noticing that 7GHz is a bit quick for the laptop...]


Cheers,

Patrick