Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:28:23 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of Intel Broadwell GPU Support?? Message-ID: <20170321222823.GA79219@rancor.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <10d5602e-8fe5-1d2c-1e07-5ca2f62ebfe0@nomadlogic.org> 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>
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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 |
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