Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 20:49:14 -0400 From: Mylan Connolly <mylan.connolly@gmail.com> To: Michael Jung <mikej@mikej.com>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Kaby Lake Support Message-ID: <CANk4dZnE19BFF8fLQDq0R8DN5zdwkq2WUb3881T3d6UM4bvj-g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <457b9277c9ea90d24ba3620f09a5ad06@mikej.com> References: <CANk4dZnhTCSPkcF8DnsU86BxTnmdzVfiaz=iNbxdgWEAKLmE4Q@mail.gmail.com> <f223e38c-6145-26b1-b356-170461e576cf@nomadlogic.org> <CANk4dZnj7zyh2iFum8T8wdU_u_6fTBwYNGSHzx9PHLTHg_cH0w@mail.gmail.com> <457b9277c9ea90d24ba3620f09a5ad06@mikej.com>
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Update! Compiling world and kernel and then installing them from the git repo provided above did the trick. I'm going to do some testing to see how reliable it is but the Intel GPU is loading and rendering without needing any custom x files. Thanks! On May 5, 2017 4:56 PM, "Michael Jung" <mikej@mikej.com> wrote: > Mylan: > > If you look at the FreeBSD handbook compiling world and kernel is easy. > > Provided you have installed the source tree from the installation media > or downloaded the source tree via svn > > #cd /usr/src > # /usr/src/ > # /usr/src/ make buildkernel && make buildworld > # /usr/src/ make installkernel && make installworld > # reboot > > If you look at /usr/src/Makefile there are more detailed and recommended > steps for compiling and installing kernel world than I have shown. > > I've been doing this since Freebsd 2.2 - If you > have ever built a linux kernels you will find this pretty simple. > > There or other things one should do - read up on mergemaster and etsupdate > these tools will help you automate updating rc scripts and configuration > files that > are supplied with FreeBSD. > > FreeBSD trails in the latest things like video drivers but in a server > environment I love it because if you must stay patched because of CVE's and > they are application patches there are rarely times that an updated kernel > must be > installed and hence a reboot. > > Enjoy > > Michael Jung > > > > On 2017-05-05 16:19, Mylan Connolly wrote: > >> 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 <pete@nomadlogic.org> 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" >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> 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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