From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 22 12:49:43 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6AE5B81 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:49:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fed1rmfepo103.cox.net (fed1rmfepo103.cox.net [68.230.241.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 982EA1A4A for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:49:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fed1rmimpo109 ([68.230.241.158]) by fed1rmfepo103.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.05.09 201-2260-151-124-20120717) with ESMTP id <20131222124937.ULYY22252.fed1rmfepo103.cox.net@fed1rmimpo109> for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 07:49:37 -0500 Received: from ip68-2-176-32.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.2.176.32]) by fed1rmimpo109 with cox id 4cpc1n00C0iJux801cpcKx; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 07:49:36 -0500 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020206.52B6DFE1.0003,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=F9uJgNdN c=1 sm=1 a=RaVUA/cXav4FskQvJnHjXw==:17 a=Xh22_gZ9cBkA:10 a=mxf6jTtjhNAA:10 a=ktNfuVtv0skA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=05pWP5ZVAAAA:8 a=oJ8Uz6C5rqEA:10 a=wQQcAX1NTftbigjPzCQA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=RaVUA/cXav4FskQvJnHjXw==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Received: from whale.home-net (whale.home-net [192.168.1.2]) by ip68-2-176-32.ph.ph.cox.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id rBM5TrHn049159 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 05:29:53 GMT (envelope-from johnjen@reynoldsnet.org) Message-ID: <52B6DFE0.6080705@reynoldsnet.org> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 05:49:36 -0700 From: John Reynolds User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130812 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Black screen with Vesa on Dell Intel graphics amd64 References: <52B60147.9070505@dumbbell.fr> In-Reply-To: <52B60147.9070505@dumbbell.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:49:43 -0000 On 12/21/13 13:59, Jean-SC)bastien PC)dron wrote: > > If the screen remains black when trying to use the Intel driver, this is > expected: our default console doesn't support the new kernel-side video > drivers. > > A new console, called Newcons, was committed to HEAD recently. It may be > part of 10.0-RELEASE, but you'll have to rebuild a kernel to enable it. > do you know if this will be MFC'ed (dunno if this is the right terminology still :) into the 9.x branch? Also, is this the last missing piece to get the Intel Haswell graphics to work or are there other pieces that have yet to be committed? Really looking forward to using my Haswell's accelerated goodness versus using fall-back VESA drivers :) Thanks to any and all that are making this possible! -Jr