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Date:      Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:06:48 +0100
From:      Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl>
To:        Florent Peterschmitt <florent@peterschmitt.fr>,  Java Boy <javaboyuk@hotmail.com>, "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Update i915 GPU driver to Linux 3.8
Message-ID:  <52F7D1C8.2050901@rainbow-runner.nl>
In-Reply-To: <52F7AE02.4050706@peterschmitt.fr>
References:  <DUB129-W34C4857B66CA9C64A4B96EB9960@phx.gbl> <52F7AE02.4050706@peterschmitt.fr>

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On 9-2-2014 17:34, Florent Peterschmitt wrote:
> Le 08/02/2014 20:40, Java Boy a écrit :
>> Guys
>>
>>    I was wondering how the update to the mesa code was going?
>>
>> Its just I bought a Haswell chip (4770TE, with a GPU unit HD 4600 (GT2)) and I am, obviously, having problems install either PC-BSD distribution (10.0) or FeeCSD 10.0. Basically when I try to reboot or logout of the GUI it hangs the screen system, not so good for a machine I want to run XBMC on :-)
>>
>> If you need someone to test I am happy to try!
>>
>> regards
>> JB
> By hanging, do you mean you have a black screen? If yes, it's something
> well known.
>
> And don't remember if newcons[0] (now vt) is in FreeBSD 10.0 but you
> show give a try with it.
>
> [0] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
>
vt(9) (formaly known as newcons) is only in HEAD and not even turned on 
by default yet.

About Haswell support: Our intel KMS driver doesn't support newer chips 
then Ivybridge. No update of our Mesa ports will change that.

-Koop



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