From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Mon Oct 23 17:36:29 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73EE2E50DB1 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:36:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom.b.rushworth@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pf0-x234.google.com (mail-pf0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3EBA77CD77 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:36:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom.b.rushworth@gmail.com) Received: by mail-pf0-x234.google.com with SMTP id d28so17624425pfe.2 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:36:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=reply-to:subject:references:to:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Xae231jXqqIFSjrDEb0lAiVrQTSEu0H8MRzoFnFWbsc=; b=NgiXMz6T909Pp0Okzh75N8q0JNZUwDuVjMJ9eDH9253Zsbfkz3jUUALf/2uRkQUHOi SLocqHCoZj+XPTqE1/tq1OULm/aoaJX740FCsaYmZN5X5KUY8LF9Defed4GGNB98/v4h tsk3GsdZCQ6Sv9CC09EtM1HRUTHbVz5R0nFbXlHblYKN5BwjVLF+fwNCVNeWySxMeJlr NSuB40J0jt7kd46T1jB0acYbkX3hlp1qYrjsxSR1qYgPkt7bMqIdfB/pHk42eyDjwutg BYovJQbT1NwPcPjglI1Z1IgiLihasMpJDJVvpxpzYurIZmjmRA3CL5N6f+uWZwHYsD/w PXLA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:reply-to:subject:references:to:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Xae231jXqqIFSjrDEb0lAiVrQTSEu0H8MRzoFnFWbsc=; b=pA+uXK0VnqAhlaLSt6G9yrvjeWoChbTB2HneG46tDaZxT2qhRoLofCU1J73uglQ2Uc 8BevNrvbYKhaPsMXonhIg6SuPGSoVJhc5QuCf3iJnhlRhUyRTbiHvO2zr5BigON4hwQg F3Y1xnQ8A3ErCygTGrnZa5mgz4safkQIC6JSm1bXWFrj/Rh5rbZ180IgKk6EzLZ0fiwN uyxgTD6lmmeKgYH0HKcLyzHvN5TbVpna92lw9VxGOF0nmJkyM5tvIZbMJJxeRXf9V0Wn ORglEXkVzu0hS5hFLja2613stfEBNSvnngYxg+e6Rty42dbGAy+La6Le3nsRfYQgCryE CCFQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaUtxnACBEpe+RllRTZtW36IqejiHYIodvjGo/Z4JqYqkgo8ZkLV /0AZYXyU1eCcu/FeJ5GXg4BLeg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABhQp+Qepi1m2cZTqk4eyLpU6ry1W8qTERJ331f1N4LhDnmyr3wIqEsoMjfYnOrrsTzgocMLKkqlPQ== X-Received: by 10.99.111.5 with SMTP id k5mr12444005pgc.364.1508780188493; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:36:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kelvin.mannynkapy.net ([207.102.139.9]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c184sm14916993pfg.35.2017.10.23.10.36.27 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:36:28 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: tbr@acm.org Subject: Re: Iris Pro P6300 intel X11 driver (was Re: intro) References: <696fb5ea-e1bf-d7c2-004a-eb4eb2af43d7@nomadlogic.org> <201710230617.v9N6HgIW013185@sdf.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org From: Tom Rushworth Message-ID: <4bd0d11c-ce6c-8b73-fa69-b649581b699f@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:36:27 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:36:29 -0000 Hi All, On 23/10/2017 02:40, Greg V via freebsd-x11 wrote: > On 10/23/2017 09:17, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> Tom Rushworth wrote: [snip] >>> >>> Suggestion 2 - try TrueOS >> TrueOS *is* FreeBSD 12 (at the moment) at its heart. > Well, TrueOS is based on the drm-next fork, which updates i915kms & > amdgpu to match modern Linux (currently 4.12): > https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics > > Plain FreeBSD -CURRENT does not have the new graphics drivers, it only > supports Intel GPUs up to and including Haswell, but you can set it up > easily now… Aha - that makes things much clearer, thanks. [snip] > The new graphics drivers (drm-next) are available as a port now, instead > of the fork: > https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm > https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-next-kmod > > Just install graphics/drm-next-kmod, configure rc.conf to load it like > the post-install message says, and reboot. > In Xorg, you can try both intel (SNA) and modesetting (Glamor) drivers. > modesetting tends to have hard-to-defeat screen tearing, but it's fast, > lightweight and reliable. I've only used the intel driver for about an hour so far and only for light window usage (exploring TrueOS apps), but there hasn't been any noticable lack of speed. Once I get the plain FreeBSD-current working I will try both drivers just out of curiosity. [snip] A bit off topic, but TrueOS offered to install rEFInd (which I use on my Mac) so I'll probably keep both FreeBSD-current and TrueOS in a dual boot setup. Thanks again! Regards, -- Tom Rushworth