From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Tue Mar 21 22:28:26 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 661D1D179A5 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:28:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@rancor.immure.com) Received: from rancor.immure.com (108-84-10-9.lightspeed.austtx.sbcglobal.net [108.84.10.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "darth.immure.com", Issuer "darth.immure.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 422F01152 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:28:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@rancor.immure.com) Received: from rancor.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rancor.immure.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id v2LMSOtu079230 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:28:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@rancor.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by rancor.immure.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id v2LMSNOV079229; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:28:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:28:23 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: Pete Wright Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of Intel Broadwell GPU Support?? Message-ID: <20170321222823.GA79219@rancor.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <20170321182231.GG77624@rancor.immure.com> <25c5ecee-b617-a55b-c8f9-cf041b7ecf92@nomadlogic.org> <20170321201843.GH77624@rancor.immure.com> <10d5602e-8fe5-1d2c-1e07-5ca2f62ebfe0@nomadlogic.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10d5602e-8fe5-1d2c-1e07-5ca2f62ebfe0@nomadlogic.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) 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: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:28:26 -0000 On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 02:44:41PM -0700, Pete Wright wrote: > (replying off-list) > > > On 03/21/17 13:18, Bob Willcox wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:29:48AM -0700, Pete Wright wrote: > >> On 03/21/2017 11:22, Bob Willcox wrote: > >>> Can someone fill me in on what the current status of support for the Intel > >>> Broadwell GPUs is? I had been running with the scfb driver on one of my > >>> systems (Intel NUC with an i7-5557U CPU) up until recently when I had to > >>> reboot it. I had updated the ports about a week earlier and just yesterday had > >>> to reboot it due to a power outage here. > >>> > >>> I haven't seen much mention/activity regarding the new i915 support for the > >>> newer Intel GPUs and was hoping that there might be some documentation that I > >>> could be pointed to so I can understand what all needs to be done to upgrade > >>> to and run it. > >>> > >>> Note that I'm currently running 10.3-stable but would be willing to update to > >>> something more current if necessary. > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance for any info or pointers you can offer! > >> Hey there Bob, you may want to take a look at TrueOS which is based on > >> FreeBSD but they have been aggressively importing new drm code to > >> support newer Intel GPU's. > >> > >> https://www.trueos.org/ > >> > >> If you are comfortable tracking and building CURRENT yourself, you can > >> try the drm-next branch at this github repository: > >> > >> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics > >> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/wiki > >> > >> I don't remember if the latest drm-next code is required for Broadwell > >> CPU's, but this code works well for my on my Skylake system. Both > >> approaches should allow you to use accelerated GPU graphics on your > >> system though. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> -pete > >> > >> -- > >> Pete Wright > >> pete@nomadlogic.org > >> @nomadlogicLA > >> > > Hi Chris, > > > > Thanks for the pointers and info. I may look into TrueOS but in the past when > > I gave a try with PC-BSD I found I missed some important (to me) aspects of > > FreeBSD. One of them was the ctwm window manager which I have been using on > > FreeBSD since about '94. Maybe I could run it on TrueOS but the desktop > > manager that it defaulted to mostly got in my way. > > yea i ran into the same issues as well :) they do have a live image > that loads the appropriate graphics driver, so it may be worth taking it > for a spin to see how hardware compatibility works before diving into > the freebsd-base-graphics branch. > > > I will probably go with the FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics path and see > > how I fair with that. > > > > Wish me luck! > > good luck! :) > > -p > > -- > Pete Wright > pete@nomadlogic.org > @nomadlogicLA Hooray!! My system is up and running the FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics version! The download, build, & install was mostly uneventful. Thanks again for your help! Bob -- Bob Willcox | You're dead, Jim. bob@immure.com | -- McCoy, "The Tholian Web", stardate unknown Austin, TX |