Testing the new i915 driver

[Ben Woods]

On Saturday, 10 October 2015, Colin Percival <cperciva at alumni.sfu.ca> wrote:

> On 10/10/15 08:07, Ben Woods wrote:
> > This does not book X11 at all on my NEC Lavie HZ750, which is the same as
> > the Lenovo Lavie Z sold in USA (the model with the normal screen, not the
> > touchscreen / 360deg model).
> >
> > I am booting in UEFI mode, and don't notice any change to the screen upon
> > loading the i915kms kernel driver.
> >
> > X11 detects and loads the intel driver (among others), but eventually
> fails
> > to start with "no screens found".
> >
> > Any ideas? Please see attached dmesg, pciconf -lvv, Xorg.0.log.
>
> This looks like a problem:
> >     device     = 'Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics'
>
> So far I'm pretty sure it's just Haswell which support has been added for.
>
> Colin Percival
>

Ahh, yep, that makes sense. I'll sit tight for Broadwell support later. One
step at a time - I'm glad to see a LOT of people are reporting success with
their Haswell devices.

Thanks again,
Ben


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