My Initial Intel Broadwell Linux Experience With The ThinkPad X1 Carbon

[Kano]

@dungeon

Well i see lots of HEVC things for gen9 (Skylake) in vaapi but Broadwell has support for all those codecs on Windows (Core M seems to be too slow). Most likely it is really a mix and not fully hardware decode right now - I want Skylake For Windows take a look there:

https://communities.intel.com/thread/59216

[degasus]

It would be nice to check for the IPC throughput of the broadwell compared to haswell/ivy. Maybe with https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Threa...-game-required ?

[dungeon]

@dungeon

Well i see lots of HEVC things for gen9 (Skylake) in vaapi but Broadwell has support for all those codecs on Windows (Core M seems to be too slow). Most likely it is really a mix and not fully hardware decode right now - I want Skylake For Windows take a look there:

https://communities.intel.com/thread/59216

I think i will wake up in 2016. it does not work even on Windows on intel nor nvidia

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1706230#post1706230

Who will be the first to fix that garbage - one who have it in hardware

[Michael]

It would be nice to check for the IPC throughput of the broadwell compared to haswell/ivy. Maybe with https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Threa...-game-required ?

If someone makes it scriptable for PTS.

[Watney]

TrackPoint mappings bug report

Michael, this bug report may be of interest.

[sundown]

Congrats
I also bought an ultrabook (or they seem to call them subnotebooks?) Asus zenbook ux303la, 3 days ago, and put a 14.10. Exciting times, back to linux (after moving away from the imac), so I'll be a frequent visitor to phoronix now :P

[Michael]

Michael, this bug report may be of interest.

my touchpad seems to be working fine.... Perhaps something different with my Core i7 X1 Carbon model.

[darkbasic]

Does keyboard's backlight work?

[Michael]

Does keyboard's backlight work?

Yep, just tried FN + Spacebar on Linux and it works. Off by default and didn't have it on under Windows so forgot up until now it even had keyboard backlight.

[steveriley]

Don't have numpad. Keyboard quality/positioning is the most valuable thing to me

And this is my major problem with the T540. My T520 has an excellent keyboard:



The T540, a logical upgrade for me, has this abomination:



The totally useless number pad pushes the keyboard just enough to the left that you really notice typing offcenter from the screen. That's enough to make me look at something other than a ThinkPad to replace the T520.