Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:18:39 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: UEFI/CURRENT: vt() and nVidia BLOB: not working on nVidia GT 740M Message-ID: <20140918131839.09199df7.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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Running FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #5 r271728: Thu Sep 18 01:18:25 CEST 2014 amd6=
4 on a Lenovo
ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with built-in nVidida GT 740M GPU (NV208M) doesn'=
t bring up X11
even with most recent nVidia BLOB 343.13.
The system has been installed from a most recent FBSD CURRENT USB drive ima=
ge and uses
UEFI and newcons/vt(). IN UEFI Firmware, the primary GPU selected is the nV=
idia GT 740M
in favour of the Intel iGPU HD4600 of the Haswell CPU.
While the system works well with console only after UEFI boot, I can not st=
art X11 having
driver "nvidia" enabled, the portion in xorg.conf reflecting this is as fol=
lows:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
VendorName "nVidia"
BoardName "GT740M"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
When starting X, the screen goes blank and black with a stuck mousepointer =
showing up and
a green (colour defined in my console) carret showing in the left hand uppe=
r corner of the
screen - and nothing happens anymore.
Using driver "nv" from the regular xorg installation from the ports (having=
set=20
WITH_NEW_XORG=3D YES
WITH_KMS=3D YES
WITH_GALLIUM=3D YES
in /etc/make.conf) fails with the error, that the driver doesn't recognises=
the GPU type.
The only working solution is the very slow and unusable x11-drivers/xf86-vi=
deo-scfb
unaccelerated software framebuffer.
I'd like to use the accelerated nVidia GPU with the BLOB as I do on all oth=
er FreeBSD
boxes I use (systems still without UEFI and graphical vt()).
What am I doing wrong here?
Has someone successfully bootet FBSD CURRENT via EUFI and nVidia accelerate=
d GPU via
nVidia's BLOB?
Thanks in advance,
Oliver
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