Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:19:45 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UEFI/CURRENT: vt() and nVidia BLOB: not working on nVidia GT 740M Message-ID: <541AEA01.4030604@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20140918131839.09199df7.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <20140918131839.09199df7.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On 09/18/14 04:18, O. Hartmann wrote: > Running FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #5 r271728: Thu Sep 18 01:18:25 CEST 2014 amd64 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 image and uses > UEFI and newcons/vt(). IN UEFI Firmware, the primary GPU selected is the nVidia 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 start X11 having > driver "nvidia" enabled, the portion in xorg.conf reflecting this is as follows: > > 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 upper corner of the > screen - and nothing happens anymore. > > Using driver "nv" from the regular xorg installation from the ports (having set > WITH_NEW_XORG= YES > WITH_KMS= YES > WITH_GALLIUM= 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-video-scfb > unaccelerated software framebuffer. > > I'd like to use the accelerated nVidia GPU with the BLOB as I do on all other 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 accelerated GPU via > nVidia's BLOB? > > Thanks in advance, > > Oliver I'm using UEFI and the blob every day without issue. However, that is with an add-in card. It's possible that X11 or the nVidia driver is trying to reinitialize the card through the (potentially non-existant) video BIOS, which fails. Is there any option like "NoInt10" you can turn on in X configuration? -Nathan
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