From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Dec 24 07:25:15 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75571359852 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2018 07:25:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3C93730BB for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2018 07:25:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([92.195.101.127]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue009 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1Mbj3e-1hEErn2aP0-00dHlT; Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:25:05 +0100 Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:25:05 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Manish Jain Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about graphics subsystems under FreeBSD Message-Id: <20181224082505.0de2d2b7.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <9b658246-ea2c-254a-fc83-5eb81ea6e53c@yandex.com> References: <55b5d06209acb007b2f4f9a4052e77b7@kathe.in> <9b658246-ea2c-254a-fc83-5eb81ea6e53c@yandex.com> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:e1k11kUI1KBsApRZPgeRyXA+UAa5jC7xHpKqQwu3uUsptlH7sbM mND06tvnHik0cKQVhWMFbJy1Ax4eaIQeYXISok/X6tse6gfXhEF0P1nk68c+8wZqTdiEqt6 lcVIDoTpag2Q7l05QK6tXR3okT95OQxUgFjLsE0lMKFvESBW4lhVJyQ6PooqtyREIxeFurb ZN5CMujUnwNwNK6yD1cJA== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:zlZOF6FlxOA=:6KXYaGqFCKE5gpztQqwDvQ rrkceAldyxl/VGpL4VRjIS94RGNWCzTzqfuxmnHUC4h3tYndZI4NSA6x27rC71KyXET1eEqvg SI+pSq28OEKR30c7AsQio3V9/iCwXnSJA57WJgIbxgbSIbBYR7OvL8wlCbm/HT4LJJBgpuqck B2HPbytrua7Y0CBswpg/9nxLJmdqreAS6sLod2Vi+3rARxx10+H05mHAwbXbL/gnZAAL2aZDq Mk6Zu9ThC6zzcA7YbZ8Ih2tbU47BrV7qpM3VpQc+4N3Ke4KTvg4NAiVyQ+7HwjP9ogDGy5Y7p Jzw5t0DlZnlGKgLO6iRQUuSW/mi+6EovvwBIICduN2Gx34REC2TlX1JMWyWDxCf1X1r2/Bx7R ZXV+ijMW6uJdmSOQ+nMPEMNQIUhjyMSVCl/NxVGHWXFMuwuFxR96w9oTEB03vZIfLJ2+z5LXG QRMmh036E0oPYLqK14qgHPe22IzU0UKv8owdM109evjxCFIpNsXabAPNHcb0ykEqPCDftTGM6 UHHEFQCCCrjcTQ+bR02CKVZKGTjkKPx5UJ/onNvziEpUaYEwg7DJDHiBamJ8JFZ9fwyZhG8AH ifI0LKqBxd5nscvigIRVOgelNzP8QNlEFNXk9rZK9cgDtbZqSCoYi6ryVkRu2MsXhXgC6WVpS nZr+BVWG+8UC5C0OAXIs4LCFn21F2Ep76Hw/XdTZlvxZux/Ju6KNivr7XLHFg+kZ8jmQ0KIhO lCEwqBBY6V4wAtzrW6cO6MSTs/npaDEV4o0Rc+3+aPc9V7I9TMVgGOG+4m8= X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: A3C93730BB X-Spamd-Bar: +++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [3.86 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@edvax.de]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mx00.schlund.de]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[yandex.com]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[127.101.195.92.zen.spamhaus.org : 127.0.0.10]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:8560, ipnet:212.227.0.0/16, country:DE]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.96)[0.962,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[edvax.de]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.35)[0.351,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.10)[0.100,0]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[187.126.227.212.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; IP_SCORE(0.05)[ipnet: 212.227.0.0/16(-0.27), asn: 8560(0.56), country: DE(-0.01)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 07:25:15 -0000 On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 23:43:16 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > As per my (incomplete) knowledge, the following are usually needed: > > Chipset | | > > AMD GPU | drm-kmod:xf86-video-amdgpu | > Radeon | drm-kmod:xf86-video-ati | radeonkms.ko** > NVidia | drm-kmod:nvidia-driver | nvidia.ko:nvidia-modeset.ko > Intel GPU | drm-kmod:xf86-video-intel | > > (** : Radeon appears to need radeon.ko and radeonkms.ko under FreeBSD > 11.x, and only radeonkms.ko in 12.0) And Intel typically needs i915kms.ko, supplied by the OS. Regarding nVidia, there are, if I remember correctly, three ports that can be used as the X driver: First, the proprietary driver with the best results (nvidia-driver, can be accompanied by nvidia-settings and nvidia-xconfig if needed), the open source driver with limited support (nouveau), and the "nv" driver that comes with X (if I remember correctly) that doesn't have any 3D capabilities. If you are not using any of them, VESA (X's built-in fallback "driver") will probably still work. No idea about AMD / ATi, I'm no longer using one since the support went from "everything works" to "basic graphics with 1 fps and we don't care"... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...