Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 16:19:00 -0400 From: Mylan Connolly <mylan.connolly@gmail.com> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Kaby Lake Support Message-ID: <CANk4dZnj7zyh2iFum8T8wdU_u_6fTBwYNGSHzx9PHLTHg_cH0w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f223e38c-6145-26b1-b356-170461e576cf@nomadlogic.org> References: <CANk4dZnhTCSPkcF8DnsU86BxTnmdzVfiaz=iNbxdgWEAKLmE4Q@mail.gmail.com> <f223e38c-6145-26b1-b356-170461e576cf@nomadlogic.org>
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Thanks for the tip. I think I will check out compiling from the github repo. I never have built FreeBSD world or kernel from source before so it'll be interesting and hopefully a good learning exercise. Will post back with new information. On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote: > > > On 05/05/2017 12:52, Mylan Connolly wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Before I start, I want to mention that I am quite new to FreeBSD (although >> I have been using Linux for quite a long time). >> >> I decided to try out FreeBSD 12-CURRENT because of how new my hardware is >> and 11.0-RELEASE was unable to detect any of my networking interfaces. >> >> I have a laptop (Alienware 13 R3) which has an Intel 630 GPU. I attempted >> to get it working by loading the i915kms module and then starting X (using >> startx with XFCE4 set up), but X was using the scfb driver (which I think >> is the UEFI frame buffer driver?). >> >> If I create a file `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/intel.conf with the following >> contents, X is unable to find a screen: >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Card0" >> Driver "intel" >> # BusID "PCI:1:0:0" >> EndSection >> >> So it kind of looks to me like my chip isn't supported by the driver out >> of >> the box yet (I understand Kaby Lake is still quite recent, so it's >> understandable). >> >> Right now I have the following X video drivers installed: >> >> xf86-video-intel-2.99.917.20170228 >> xf86-video-scfb-0.0.4_5 >> xorg-server-1.18.4,1 >> >> If anyone has any tips to help me out I'd really appreciate it. If I need >> to provide additional information I'd be glad to, just don't know exactly >> what all is necessary at this point. >> > you have two options with the Intel Kabylake GPU. TrueOS (www.trueos.org) > is very closely aligned with the FreeBSD project. They have incorporated > bits from work to update GPU support on FreeBSD. You can also build your > own world and kernel from the github repo where this work is happening: > > https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics > > This is what I do on my Kabylake and Skylake sysetms, and can confirm it > works quite well. You'll want to checkout the drm-next branch, then > perform a build of the complete world and kernel from there. you should be > able to do this from your existing 12-CURRENT installation. but to verify > this branch works on your harware you can try the live image from the > TrueOS project before investing in building everything locally. > > -pete > > -- > Pete Wright > pete@nomadlogic.org > @nomadlogicLA > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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