Laptop

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I’m looking at a Dell laptop with Intel 4400 graphics and Intel Wireless-N 7260 chipset. Does anyone know if Haiku supports these?

David

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Hi DFergATL,

The graphics should work in VESA mode. The wifi doesn’t look too good, though. Since we have a FreeBSD network driver compatibility layer, I have websearched for “freebsd Intel Wireless-N 7260” and it looks like there’s no driver yet…

See the FreeBSD hardware list for other compatible chipsets.

Regards,
Humdinger

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Thanks Humdinger

Well this laptop isn’t for me then. I need the wireless and I just don’t like VESA. I shall keep looking.

David

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Hi DFergATL!

I recently bought a new notebook (posted in this forum about it) which has an on-chip intel HD4600 and therefore also only VESA. But it works just as well as my old notebook’s nvidia 7600 which did have a dedicated Haiku driver.
As long as Haiku doesn’t make use of the hardware capabilities of the GPU, it pretty much doesn’t matter if you’re on VESA or not. Much more interesting is wlan, lan, usb and audio IMO.

Regards,
Humdinger

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I’d highly recommend a thinkpad X or T series. The X60/X61 work well and are not too expensive, for newer hardware the X200 up to X230 are great.

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With a simple commit in hrev47775 it’s good-bye VESA, hello intel_extreme driver. Not that I see any difference…

Regards,
Humdinger

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VESA still doesn’t let you set different resolutions per workspace, does it? Also, oddball screensizes are more graciously handled by native drivers: that can be especially important with laptops.

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Hi Michel,

Even under VESA you can set the resolution of individual workspaces. I think the available resolutions under VESA depend on the BIOS. I think normally it should support the native resolution of your panel. Things can get more interesting when using an external monitor with another aspect ratio, e.g. 16:10 or 4:3 if your panel is 16:10…

Regards,
Humdinger

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With a simple commit in hrev47775 it’s good-bye VESA, hello intel_extreme driver. Not that I see any difference…

Regards,
Humdinger[/quote]

I have submitted a ticket because my 3rd gen intel graphics does not work (not even the vesa driver).
https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/11180
Hope it can be added to the intel_extreme driver.

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Just to keep it for further reference if anybody is interested… :slight_smile:

I have just bought a Lenovo T61 14" widescreen (nvidia nvs 140m) laptop.

Haiku (hrev50075) works very well on it (only vesa video, but native 1400x900 resolution), wifi recognized and works just excellent,
Overall a solid machine for Haiku.