Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:48:19 +0000 From: Doug Kirk <dbkirk@gmail.com> To: tbr@acm.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intro Message-ID: <CAGhTqAUkrbMW6LyabueiJkdE35gkF00eBN7MdTSCWosFMrpFCA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f0fb13d6-1d4e-2de8-f3cb-c6976f57fc9f@gmail.com> References: <f0fb13d6-1d4e-2de8-f3cb-c6976f57fc9f@gmail.com>
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Hi Tom, Look for the "Current state of drm-next" post in this list from 3-Oct-2017. It refers to the working graphics fork at https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics, drm-next branch. It's got much newer stuff. On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 3:29 PM Tom Rushworth <tom.b.rushworth@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > A few quick words to say where I'm coming from: > > I'm a long time C programmer, mostly userland, but I have done some > kernel work. I was doing Linux USB drivers in the early 2000's, and I > tinkered with the NetBSD serial driver way back when serial ports were > actually useful. I wrote my first serious C program in the late 1970s. > > I'm a FreeBSD desktop user, driven out of MacOS by the marketroids, and > driven out of Linux by systemd :). > > I recently purchased a new desktop machine that turns out to have an > Intel Iris Pro P6300 (Broadwell GT3e) graphics system. It came with > Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon, which manages the screen very nicely, so the > Linux driver is good enough. I ran into issues with ssh within hours of > starting up, and I'm just not interested in digging through yet another > (foolish) system administration issue involving systemd to sort it out. > > I tried FreeBSD 11.1, but the i915 driver there isn't quite up to the > job. I've looked at the various FreeBSD i915 websites and discussions, > but can't easily sort out where the current focus is. > > What I'd like from the list is advice on where to start :). I'm willing > to test pre-built stuff, or build it myself, or even work on the code, > but everything I looked at seemed to have ground to a halt about a year > ago. > > So, where to begin? > > Regards, > > -- > Tom Rushworth > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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