Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:06:48 +0100 From: Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl> To: Florent Peterschmitt <florent@peterschmitt.fr>, Java Boy <javaboyuk@hotmail.com>, "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Update i915 GPU driver to Linux 3.8 Message-ID: <52F7D1C8.2050901@rainbow-runner.nl> In-Reply-To: <52F7AE02.4050706@peterschmitt.fr> References: <DUB129-W34C4857B66CA9C64A4B96EB9960@phx.gbl> <52F7AE02.4050706@peterschmitt.fr>
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On 9-2-2014 17:34, Florent Peterschmitt wrote: > Le 08/02/2014 20:40, Java Boy a écrit : >> Guys >> >> I was wondering how the update to the mesa code was going? >> >> Its just I bought a Haswell chip (4770TE, with a GPU unit HD 4600 (GT2)) and I am, obviously, having problems install either PC-BSD distribution (10.0) or FeeCSD 10.0. Basically when I try to reboot or logout of the GUI it hangs the screen system, not so good for a machine I want to run XBMC on :-) >> >> If you need someone to test I am happy to try! >> >> regards >> JB > By hanging, do you mean you have a black screen? If yes, it's something > well known. > > And don't remember if newcons[0] (now vt) is in FreeBSD 10.0 but you > show give a try with it. > > [0] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons > vt(9) (formaly known as newcons) is only in HEAD and not even turned on by default yet. About Haswell support: Our intel KMS driver doesn't support newer chips then Ivybridge. No update of our Mesa ports will change that. -Koop
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