Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 21:13:22 +0200 From: Juan =?iso-8859-1?b?UmFt824=?= Molina Menor <listjm@club.fr> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, =?iso-8859-1?q?Jean-S=E9bastien_P=E9dron?= <jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr> Subject: Testing the new i915 driver (G41 Express) Message-ID: <562BD852.9000509@club.fr>
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Hi! The regression with the G41 Express GPU seemd resolved by recent changes. I can boot kernel.i915 and load i915kms in loader.conf, as before. X11 works. No issues found. Thanks again, Juan > Hi! > > The new code (updated this morning) brings a regression with the G41 > Express GPU: as soon as I kldload i915kms the screen goes blank, without > crashing the system. > > This GPU works well with the old i915 KMS driver, it even requires it to > be usable, as the VT framebuffer at the standard resolution of 640x480 > flickers horribly and superposes part of the output on the top of the > screen (see attached image showing the login prompt). Loading the old > KMS driver cures this and the terminal changes the resolution to a nice > 1920x1200. > > You’ll find attached the dmesg output for both the old and new code, as > well as the pciconf output. > > Best regards, > Juan
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