Fujitsu Lifebook E751 (iGPU: HM65): distorted console with UEFI boot

[O. Hartmann]

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I ran into some trouble booting off a Fujitsu Lifebook E751 (firmware is latest, r1.22
from 2013). The E751 is of model series S26391-K326-V100 and equipted with a Core
i5-2520M CPU and supposed to be also equipted with a iGPU HM65 according to the
techniscal specifications from Fujitsu.

Trying to boot off 12-PRERELEASE/12-RC2 and/or 13-CURRENT (most recent I could grap from
the download page), the screen becomes distorted immediately after the kernel has
loaded and initialised/booted. The screen is at the loader's all right so far.

Trying to disable graphics mode via escaping to the loader's prompt and setting 

set hw.vga.textmode=1

subsequently loading the kernel and then booting, doesn't help. The screen is distorted
again. The notebook seems UEFI only and doesn't boot off from MBR partioned devices (i.e.
NanoBSD I used to use).

Loading /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko

after manually having loaded /boot/kernel/kernel (and not booted yet) doesn't change
anything either.

Booting off and installing Linux (Ubuntu, Mint so far, most revent verions I can get my
hands on) is no problem. The console works fine from the beginning and so the graphics.

Is there a chance to get a FreeBSD booting the easy way? 

The provided boot images do not contain any of the graphics/drm-stable|next|legacy-kmod
stuff, I tried to load i915kms.ko off from /boot/modules/ (were those modules from the
ports are supposed to reside) but no chance.

Before starting investigating this issue further I'd like to ask wether there is a
general support provided or is that type of notebook dead matter for FreeBSD of the
modern kind?

Thanks in advance,

oh

p.s. please CC me, I'm not subscribing all lists.

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O. Hartmann
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