Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

[Shin-ya Murakami]

Hello, 

> simple VESA and vt-cons?

I found the next line in the dmesg outputs:

  VT: running with driver "efifb".

so, vesa driver and efifb?

> Yes, Dragonfly BSD likely to support this graphics card, I'll try to
> start with i5-4570 (https://bsdnir.info/files/dfly/ my logs) 2D work
> fine, 3D too lazy to find something and run, but like should work. The
> same must be maintained, and OpenBSD.
> Porting to direct, as I understand it is unlikely, but in FreeBSD has
> already been done is not a small amount of work on the support of
> these technologies from the kernel. Unfortunately, it seems to fall,
> this one is not actively engaged, at least in public.

Thank you for your comments.

Regards,

      Shin-ya Murakami

From: Andrey Fesenko <f0andrey at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 21:28:27 +0300

> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Shin-ya Murakami
> <murashin at gfd-dennou.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using Intel Core i7-5600U vPro which includes Intel HD Graphics 5500.
>> The vesa driver doesn't work for me.
>> I can find the lines in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>> [   370.050] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10
>> [   370.052] (EE) VESA(0): V_BIOS address 0x0 out of range
>> I guess that I use UEFI instead of BIOS, then some kind of infomation
>> doesn't been passed to the kernel correctly.
>>
>> I use scfb driver now, however this driver is unable to use VGA output
>> connector, so I want to use the driver which can enable me to use the
>> VGA output.
>>
> 
> simple VESA and vt-cons?
> 
>> I read that Intel HD Graphics 5500 works on Dragonfly BSD recently.
>> Is it possible to accelerate the development referring such source code?
>>
> 
> Yes, Dragonfly BSD likely to support this graphics card, I'll try to
> start with i5-4570 (https://bsdnir.info/files/dfly/ my logs) 2D work
> fine, 3D too lazy to find something and run, but like should work. The
> same must be maintained, and OpenBSD.
> Porting to direct, as I understand it is unlikely, but in FreeBSD has
> already been done is not a small amount of work on the support of
> these technologies from the kernel. Unfortunately, it seems to fall,
> this one is not actively engaged, at least in public.
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Shin-ya Murakami
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