CURRENT, X11 on i5-4200M Haswell and iGPU graphics HD4600: Status?

[O. Hartmann]

Am Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:30:46 +0200
Tommi Pernila <tommi.pernila at gmail.com> schrieb:

> Hi Oliver,
> 
> The Current branch does not yet include the latest intel drivers with the
> Haswell support.
> To test the latest code follow the directions on this website:
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Update%20i915%20GPU%20driver%20to%20Linux%203.8
> 
> Br,
> 
> Tommi


Thank you very much.
I see, there is some progress.

I just read that even DragonFlyBSD seems to have support in pace with Linux kernel
3.18 :-(

Regards,

Oliver 
> 
> > On Dec 15, 2015 17:09, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:  
> > >
> > > I have a Lenovo ThinkPad E540 with an i5-4200M CPU and HD4600 iGPU and
> > > nVidia GT740M. I tried CURRENT (FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #3 r292258: Tue
> > > Dec 15 13:22:31 CET 2015 amd64) with most recent X11 (xorg-7.7_2,
> > > xorg-drivers-7.7_3, xorg-server-1.17.4,1). kldstats reports
> > >
> > > Id Refs Address            Size     Name
> > >  1   26 0xffffffff80200000 1245288  kernel
> > >  2    2 0xffffffff81447000 7b328    drm2.ko
> > >  3    1 0xffffffff814c3000 c98c8    i915kms.ko
> > >
> > > so I suppose KMS-capable kernel module for detecting HD4600 iGGPU is up
> > > and running. The notebook has a HD4600/Optimus nVidia GT740M
> > > combination, there is also a firmware switch to select between
> > > "Integrated" (supposedly HD4600) and "Accerlerated" (nVidia Optimus
> > > GT740M).
> > >
> > > I'm not able to have a graphical screen either with "intel" or "nvidia"
> > > set in /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf. The Xorg.log reports
> > > about " no device found".
> > >
> > > This incident is announced earlier due to the fact I use a vt() based
> > > kernel, UEFI boot and on all systems (with IvyBridge or older) this
> > > method finds the iGPU, reports some properties of the possible ports
> > > available due to i915kms and then switches into a higher resolution
> > > mode instead remaining in that clumsy 640x400 resolution.
> > >
> > > Either way what is configured in the firmware (using "Integrated" right
> > > now) I'm incapable of getting any graphical screen or any indication
> > > that the iGPU or the nVidia addemdum GT740M exists.
> > >
> > > I read about successfully installed graphical screens on recent
> > > CURRENT with Haswell iGPU graphics - so am I lost with that Optimus
> > > hardware? Or is CURRENT still not handling all Haswell chips?
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > Oliver
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