Testing the new i915 driver

Eric McCorkle eric at metricspace.net
Sat Oct 17 15:12:48 UTC 2015


Just successfully tested suspend/resume, both in X11 and in terminal.

On 10/13/15 21:04, Eric McCorkle wrote:
> I have positive initial results; however, my ports were badly out of date, so X only barely works (unrelated to the driver).  I'm blowing away all ports and rebuilding everything to try to get it working.
>
> The screen doesn't come back on after suspend, but that is a known issue with this device (Lenovo W540).
>
> On October 7, 2015 7:01:00 PM EDT, "Jean-Sébastien Pédron" <dumbbell at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Some people asked for details about how to test the update of the i915
>> kernel driver. The current status and instructions are now on the
>> dedicated wiki article:
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Update%20i915%20GPU%20driver%20to%20Linux%203.8
>>
>> Remember it is still a work in progress!
>>
>> Thank you for your help and your patience!
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>


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