Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:40:55 +0300 From: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Iris Pro P6300 intel X11 driver (was Re: intro) Message-ID: <e94b9a81-50a0-1576-ac62-f01347d0a11d@unrelenting.technology> In-Reply-To: <201710230617.v9N6HgIW013185@sdf.org> References: <f0fb13d6-1d4e-2de8-f3cb-c6976f57fc9f@gmail.com> <696fb5ea-e1bf-d7c2-004a-eb4eb2af43d7@nomadlogic.org> <b7db2fea-a1d8-1b7a-21df-602bd9e0c42e@yahoo.com> <b058386b-4832-5b6e-29df-927077df9541@gmail.com> <201710230617.v9N6HgIW013185@sdf.org>
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On 10/23/2017 09:17, Scott Bennett wrote: > Tom Rushworth <tom.b.rushworth@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Problem summary: new machine with Intel Iris Pro P6300 graphics, FreeBSD >> 11 runs in console mode but I can't get an X server running. >> >> This is just a partial update on the issue, I haven't had time to finish >> all the suggestions. >> >> Suggestion 1 - try FreeBSD 12 >> I spent a day and installed head as of 2017/10/15 (or thereabouts) but >> it doesn't work out of the box (the console works, just not the X server >> with the intel driver or any other default driver). I have lots more >> digging to do with it to make sure I really do have the latest, and that >> the configuration is correct, so this is ongoing. >> >> Suggestion 2 - try TrueOS > TrueOS *is* FreeBSD 12 (at the moment) at its heart. Well, TrueOS is based on the drm-next fork, which updates i915kms & amdgpu to match modern Linux (currently 4.12): https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics Plain FreeBSD -CURRENT does not have the new graphics drivers, it only supports Intel GPUs up to and including Haswell, but you can set it up easily now… >> I downloaded the USB stick image. There doesn't seem to be a 'live' >> option in that image (at least I couldn't find it with a few minutes of >> poking around), and the installer does not use the intel driver, so I >> hunted down another drive for the machine and did a full install. >> Configuring the video driver to be intel during the install does give a >> working X server, and checking the XOrg.log file confirms that the intel >> driver is the one being used. >> >> So now I either have to learn to like TrueOS and Lumina, or figure out >> where my source version or configuration is wrong for the FreeBSD-12 >> setup :). I'm probably going to do a bit of both. > Or you can just install the window manager of your preference, and > use that. I haven't yet used TrueOS, but the times I've installed and used > PC-BSD (the predecessor to TrueOS) I always installed my usual choice > (WindowMaker) and proceeded happily on. Lumina will still be there if you > need to use it. The only nuisance is that some of the special TrueOS > graphical applications may work better with Lumina, just as the earlier ones > did with KDE, which was the PC-BSD standard before Ken Moore wrote Lumina > for PC-BSD. >> The good news is that there is a working intel driver for the Iris Pro >> P6300. >> >> Thanks for the help and suggestions - I'll update again if I figure out >> the plain FreeBSD-12 setup. The new graphics drivers (drm-next) are available as a port now, instead of the fork: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-next-kmod Just install graphics/drm-next-kmod, configure rc.conf to load it like the post-install message says, and reboot. In Xorg, you can try both intel (SNA) and modesetting (Glamor) drivers. modesetting tends to have hard-to-defeat screen tearing, but it's fast, lightweight and reliable.
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