i915 driver update testing

[Ranjan1018 .]

2014-10-05 10:51 GMT+02:00 Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>:

> On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 10:32:05AM +0200, Ranjan1018 . wrote:
> > 2014-10-03 19:02 GMT+02:00 Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Please find at the
> > > https://kib.kiev.ua/kib/drm/i915.1.patch
> > > a patch which provides some updates to the i915 driver. At large, this
> > > is import of the batch of Linux commits, and as such, it is interesting
> > > mostly as attempt to restart the race to get us more up to date Linux
> code
> > > imported. It might provide some bug fixes, most likely for IvyBridge.
> > > Interesting from the development PoV is the update of the GEM i/o ioctl
> > > code path to mimic Linux code structure.
> > >
> > > I am asking _only_ for reports of regressions with the patch applied,
> > > comparing with the code which is currently in HEAD. I will not debug
> > > any existing bugs, my goal right now is to commit this update, which is
> > > needed for further work. I.e., only when you get an issue with the
> patch
> > > applied, but cannot reproduce the problem without the patch, please
> > > prepare a bug report.
> > >
> > > FYI, the driver will attach to haswell gfx, but I am not interested in
> > > reports about this (see above paragraph). On my test box, which is Core
> > > i7 4770S, the mode-setting and front-buffer rendering works, but Mesa
> > > immediately cause renderer to bug out.
> > >
> > > Work was sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation, both by time and
> hardware,
> > > and Intel provided access to the documentation.
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org mailing list
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11
> > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
> > >
> >
> > On a Samsung ATIV Book 2 15.6??? Notebook - NP270E5E, specs,
> > <http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/pcs/NP270E5E-K02US-specs> the patch
> > does not works.
> > The result of the command
> >
> > # kldload i915kms
> > is a blank screen.
> Do you use vt console ?

Yes.

>   Is the machine alive after the kldload ?
>
> No, a running mplayer process stops playing music; shutting down the
laptop via 'shutdown -r now' command or via power button does not works.
Only the Caps Lock led blinks pressing the Caps Lock key.

Regards,
Maurizio