Re: Months unable to load firmware on Intel graphics on 12th gen system

From: Pete Wright <pete_at_nomadlogic.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 21:20:45 UTC

On 7/6/23 19:56, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> Back in April, almost 3 months ago, I reported in bug 270888 
> <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=270888> that I was no 
> longer able to load the firmware on my laptop with 'Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 
> [Iris Xe Graphics]'. Is there any hope of a working firmware for Alder 
> Lake systems? While drm-515-kmod provides basic functionality, there is 
> no acceleration. If I try viewing a video with mpv, I get:
> libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
> error: Kernel is too old (4.16+ required) or unusable for Iris.
> Check your dmesg logs for loading failures.
> 
> Anyone have any hope?

i'm guessing using the xf86-video-intel pkg didn't work for you?  i used 
it on some older intel GPU's with success, can't remember the hardware 
rev though.

-pete


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