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

From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2023 19:38:03 UTC
On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 2:21 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
>
> --
> Pete Wright
> pete@nomadlogic.org
> @nomadlogicLA
>
>
Thanks for the suggestion, but xf86-video-intel is now abandoned by Inel,
so no Alder Lake support. Until 515 became available, no support at all. I
had to use scfb and lacked almost all features. At least basics are now
available. Accel was available for a while and I suspect that I might get
it working if I can find the right firmware version from early 2023.
-- 
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