Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 09:09:50 -0500 From: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> To: greg@unrelenting.technology Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is 4k desktop possible on freebsd-12? Message-ID: <201810171409.w9HE9oYl004396@sdf.org> In-Reply-To: <1539778298.1865.0@smtp.migadu.com> References: <3ae8eee1-4752-122f-bcc6-661ed23d09e3@zyxst.net> <a8cfa4bf-47db-4e27-f577-6f35875f64c8@zyxst.net> <201810171147.w9HBlGhM007525@sdf.org> <1539778298.1865.0@smtp.migadu.com>
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Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> wrote:
> > tech lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/10/2018 11:17, tech-lists wrote:
> >> > I'm trying to get xorg to display 4k. The context is:
> >> >
> >> > FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA8 r339084 amd64
> >> > ports r481640
> >> > AMD RX580 GPU
> >> > Asus X99 Extreme3 mobo
> >> > cpu: intel e5-2699v4
> >> > 48GB RAM
> >> > Samsung UE48JU6410U monitor connected via HDMI
> >> >
> >> > drm-next-kmod-4.11.g20180822
> >>
> >> Hi, just to follow up to this,
> >>
> >> I'd run out of time to work on this so installed latest ubuntu
> >> desktop,
> >> then ran xrandr and it showed 4k as the top resolution. I didn't
> >> have to
> >> make any modifications:
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >> DisplayPort-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y
> >> axis)
> >> HDMI-A-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted
> >> right x
> >> axis y axis) 1872mm x 1053mm
> >> 3840x2160 30.00 + 25.00 24.00 29.97 23.98
> >> 4096x2160 30.00 25.00 24.00 29.97 23.98
> >> [/snip]
> >>
> >> and then, additionally, installed boinc-client-opencl and boinc was
> >> able
> >> to see the GPUand use it for crunching.
> >>
> >> On FreeBSD I couldn't see a way of making the boinc client
> >> OpenCL-aware.
> >
> > Have you installed lang/clover? If not, then that may be why
> > you don't
> > see any devices there. For Nvidia, it would be lang/beignet instead.
>
> beignet is for Intel.
>
> If nvidia provides OpenCL for FreeBSD at all, it would be in
> nvidia-driver.
>
Oops. Thanks for the correction! I hadn't looked at it in a long time
and apparently misremembered what the lang/beignet/pkg-descr said.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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