10.3 stable successfully running Haswell graphics

[Arto Pekkanen]

When the nVidia card was attached, did kldloading i915ikms cause kernel
panic? Or was the problem merely X.org not detecting the intel GPU device?

A person just before posted that their laptop with both intel and nVidia
GPUs has kernel panic upon loading i915kms, even though the laptop Ivy
Bridge chipset should be fully supported even in 10.3 without patches.

Summa summarum: the DRM/KMS stack seems to misbehave with nVidia GPUs.
This need to be fixed. More data required for devs.

If you want to help, you could run FreeBSD HEAD from a USB stick and
test if intel is usable with nVidia attached, and if not, report PR to
the developers so they can fix this problem.

On 14.04.2016 07:13, Jeremy wrote:
> Thanks for all of your hard work at FreeBSD. And thanks to *Masachika
> ISHIZUKA's *Haswell patch I am running my Haswell graphics on FreeBSD 10.3
> stable (r297531M) using Xorg Server version 1.18.3 and KDE 4.14.3.
> 
> The only issue I had was trying to get Xorg Server to start with my Nvidia
> card installed in my computer and Haswell graphics selected by the computer
> BIOS as the primary video, (but without my Nvidia card being used at all).
> I tried modifying the Xorg.conf file with BUSID and also tried removing the
> Nvidia configure lines from Xorg.conf but nothing worked, and it wouldn't
> start. I finally had to physically remove the Nvidia card to get the
> Haswell graphics to work. Other than that, the Haswell graphics works like
> a charm.
> 
> Again, thank you all for your hard work!
> regards,
> 
> Jeremy Cox
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