Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:04:03 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UEFI/CURRENT: vt() and nVidia BLOB: not working on nVidia GT 740M Message-ID: <20140918190403.0faa25de.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <541AEA01.4030604@freebsd.org> References: <20140918131839.09199df7.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <541AEA01.4030604@freebsd.org>
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--Sig_/lPJW20ZHSjkb+ZUwt7Ttg29 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:19:45 -0700 Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> schrieb: >=20 > 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 (NV2= 08M) 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 th= e 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 no= t start X11 > > having driver "nvidia" enabled, the portion in xorg.conf reflecting thi= s 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 mousepoin= ter showing up > > and a green (colour defined in my console) carret showing in the left h= and upper > > corner of the screen - and nothing happens anymore. > > > > Using driver "nv" from the regular xorg installation from the ports (ha= ving set > > 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 recogn= ises the GPU > > type. > > > > The only working solution is the very slow and unusable x11-drivers/xf8= 6-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 accele= rated GPU via > > nVidia's BLOB? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Oliver >=20 > I'm using UEFI and the blob every day without issue. However, that is=20 > with an add-in card. It's possible that X11 or the nVidia driver is=20 > trying to reinitialize the card through the (potentially non-existant)=20 > video BIOS, which fails. Is there any option like "NoInt10" you can turn= =20 > on in X configuration? > -Nathan I tried Option "NoInt10" Option "PrimaryInt" both in all combinations possible without any success. It is good to hear t= hat at least one successful run of the BLOB with UEFI/vt can be reported, so the problem= might be of a minor issue - hopefully. The GPU is a dedicated PCIe GPU for the notebook, combined with the HD4600 = which can be used via nVidia's "Optimus" switching - if software supports it. In the UEF= I, I selected the nVidia dedicated GPU as the primary one. The way the "dead" screen shows up reminds me of a dead end screen: the lef= t-hand top carret and the console's mousepointer (at the position it was on the consol= e) look like as the whole output is now delegated towards another output socket. The key= board works surprisingly NOT as expected, since I have to switch this Lenovo FN key for= Ctrl - which then allows me to switch back to the console and terminate the X server or = xdm. I need to figure out what name's the sockets have (on the Dell Latitude I h= ave, they are called DPS-0 to DPS-2 for the internal display, the HDMI and the DisplayPor= t socket and VGA-0 for the VGA socket). Will report back ... Oliver --Sig_/lPJW20ZHSjkb+ZUwt7Ttg29 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUGxCJAAoJEOgBcD7A/5N8dQ4IAIZNaFEy8eTGtuIZCxiocwWC Z4hXNBWTertwHRP6pNfL3EKVgJ1g/Wdl48EoyYGpWq/AP/OIi7c+qb6BWmZtLGfT zSZQiZ5+28hH9w972JXVGhmHm859Ic8oZfKT7nNrR69Bcvj+GPRGALqiBlEsa9P+ 2C0L8nduHDk2+25A4wAV/L7Gdeeq015l8Ki4fJ4iVdoB9mLRbCAwXPhCVrrNDEAf itT+QHQDywwbu/bs0i8ZCGNGVHVSQ7bOuweqpKOlRpOvUaWE3mFEy79oDQvPXGb/ CQkHhvJABHOOvA7AMQXFSjU0MdrqImayhc7+htnwsGLipixVz2KDE7Yi4etjQLw= =WecA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/lPJW20ZHSjkb+ZUwt7Ttg29--
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