From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Fri May 5 20:19:01 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E691CD5F169 for ; Fri, 5 May 2017 20:19:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mylan.connolly@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pg0-x233.google.com (mail-pg0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c05::233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8622131C for ; Fri, 5 May 2017 20:19:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mylan.connolly@gmail.com) Received: by mail-pg0-x233.google.com with SMTP id y4so7961555pge.0 for ; Fri, 05 May 2017 13:19:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=Gic5sE7hJquLR6Mv/pjglF99AR3qdw3VfpWkUd6FK/A=; b=SAd5m2WIFJvKVgYayPji5kOYbbWoV9O3Ct7H+NJEjHGBvT0DU3Z9UarP/Lpgnvgalo pMcfGGfCrEZot/iGc6IqKl3jxXHylTbxlH8qPQS2bRi1MQWZy7X9VJY7oc5VCy/WiWaS i/q46K1QUWvx8nLPprHH8vHv3XplvuSasEUcW4W0m0JU2SglcwCKCnHOJI9UsKhrn5hp zjC8HTh+v2o/A743e24SpToI0nhdnTgsm8XKSWuvDcDG3N9Ilx6ITlfUU7JT9vLkMtSu xTBhbvCKXKxeFTv7Kq+eSDL6NfwV9zsTi7826Kj/14ONGPVTXiNxuhuGdUmQDeA6JJkQ G9sg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=Gic5sE7hJquLR6Mv/pjglF99AR3qdw3VfpWkUd6FK/A=; b=Znbmcf84Pxj1AYLL7+HSQH0bKhHFMZ9YzbNDOivz0foDy2tkC3jzhIKg85kxhwfuZS iKUKSMP4p73QtWrNGrmnp1LTBOAbc4AZEMPodSKmovjRHAF6i0Dmn+MAaGG0zogXfb4j aXTH4Na2gM/VsmYPQl5sSDueGNyShh2z0OAY4bS5opWP+SOFigoQGKzFXel5KJFgWtjv rDO67t1PwCH/MijeNvRFipUj7mi/rjTPixmoUgKByC5dltv4oUkZ1tPcDbgowakP4vsi CS9trDi8X40WXZcx0Oa8frDhbpBD5tYvEvdznZKiTtRti3/Avumoa9+jT11RAV9/dBIs ceLQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/4HMLaqsncCfj/YQ4m0hio6rONOAURuzS1bGm9rM4pD6K2+2Cqp sjsov6pobxI/cbh2iH92z/6+zixe5w== X-Received: by 10.98.31.141 with SMTP id l13mr19002387pfj.259.1494015541271; Fri, 05 May 2017 13:19:01 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.153.67 with HTTP; Fri, 5 May 2017 13:19:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Mylan Connolly Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 16:19:00 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Intel Kaby Lake Support To: Pete Wright Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 20:19:02 -0000 Thanks for the tip. I think I will check out compiling from the github repo. I never have built FreeBSD world or kernel from source before so it'll be interesting and hopefully a good learning exercise. Will post back with new information. On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Pete Wright wrote: > > > On 05/05/2017 12:52, Mylan Connolly wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Before I start, I want to mention that I am quite new to FreeBSD (although >> I have been using Linux for quite a long time). >> >> I decided to try out FreeBSD 12-CURRENT because of how new my hardware is >> and 11.0-RELEASE was unable to detect any of my networking interfaces. >> >> I have a laptop (Alienware 13 R3) which has an Intel 630 GPU. I attempted >> to get it working by loading the i915kms module and then starting X (using >> startx with XFCE4 set up), but X was using the scfb driver (which I think >> is the UEFI frame buffer driver?). >> >> If I create a file `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/intel.conf with the following >> contents, X is unable to find a screen: >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Card0" >> Driver "intel" >> # BusID "PCI:1:0:0" >> EndSection >> >> So it kind of looks to me like my chip isn't supported by the driver out >> of >> the box yet (I understand Kaby Lake is still quite recent, so it's >> understandable). >> >> Right now I have the following X video drivers installed: >> >> xf86-video-intel-2.99.917.20170228 >> xf86-video-scfb-0.0.4_5 >> xorg-server-1.18.4,1 >> >> If anyone has any tips to help me out I'd really appreciate it. If I need >> to provide additional information I'd be glad to, just don't know exactly >> what all is necessary at this point. >> > you have two options with the Intel Kabylake GPU. TrueOS (www.trueos.org) > is very closely aligned with the FreeBSD project. They have incorporated > bits from work to update GPU support on FreeBSD. You can also build your > own world and kernel from the github repo where this work is happening: > > https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics > > This is what I do on my Kabylake and Skylake sysetms, and can confirm it > works quite well. You'll want to checkout the drm-next branch, then > perform a build of the complete world and kernel from there. you should be > able to do this from your existing 12-CURRENT installation. but to verify > this branch works on your harware you can try the live image from the > TrueOS project before investing in building everything locally. > > -pete > > -- > Pete Wright > pete@nomadlogic.org > @nomadlogicLA > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >