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MSI GE62VR 7RF Apache Pro
Hardware Overview
Notes
Installation
Technical Output
MSI GE62VR 7RF Apache Pro
Hardware Overview
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz (2808.14-
MHz
K8-class CPU)
Wired Ethernet (Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet) supported by alc driver
Wireless: Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8265 supported by iwm driver in 12-CURRENT (custom installed hardware)
Bluetooth: ubt0 device created, but does not seem to work
Graphics: i915 Kabylake supported by graphics/drm-next-kmod
Notes
Audio works after setting sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1
Synaptics touchpad works out of the box; additional features accessed by adding hw.psm.synaptics_support=“1” to /boot/loader.conf
Webcam works with multimedia/webcamd
Screen brightness keys work when bound to intel_backlight from graphics/intel-backlight
SteelSeries keyboard brightness and basic mode changes work out of the box; advanced backlight control with sysutils/msiklm
Volume buttons work fine
CPU stepping works
CPU temperature reported after adding coretemp_load=“YES” to /boot/loader.conf
SDMMC slot not tested, but does not seem to be detected
Installation
UEFI boot does work with USB stick
UEFI boot does
not
work from disk after installation at least with ZFS (after installation, set boot mode to Legacy in BIOS)
Technical Output
dmesg:
dmesg.out.txt
pciconf -lv:
pciconf.out.txt
devinfo -v:
devinfo.out.txt
acpidump -dt:
acpidump.out.txt
Laptop
Mobile