Intel Brasswell, NUC, iGPU and VESA driver on CURRENT

[Alexander Mishurov]

Hi, you should use x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb. This driver similar to 
VESA for UEFI mode.

Also, there's branch for GPUs up to Haswell
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Update%20i915%20GPU%20driver%20to%20Linux%203.8

N3050 use ValleyView graphics, if i'm not wrong; unfortunately it isn't 
supported yet.

On 07/03/16 14:54, O. Hartmann wrote:
> We got a bunch of new hardware for certain purposes and equipted with modern
> CPUs and iGPUs. FreeBSD still lacks in kernel support for Intel CPUs beyond
> IvyBridge based iGPUs or moderate modern GPUs dur to some KMS issues. On three
> years old hardware with Intel Haswell and HD4XXX iGPU I still use the VESA
> driver running X11 (very poor performance). Now, on Braswell and Boradwell
> settop boxes, I'd like to use also VESA driver to have graphical support.
>
> The boxes are all booted via UEFI!
>
> Starting VESA fails with something like:
>
> [...]
> (II) VESA(0): initializing int10
> (EE) VESA(0): V_BIOS address 0x0 out of range
> (II) UnloadModule: vesa
> [...]
>
> Google says this is probably due to UEFI not getting the correct hardware
> informations, but since I have a high-resolution console (vt()), I guess the
> FBSD kernel knows about the EFI support?
>
> Is there a solution with VESA for that issue?
>
> This problem is with all barebone PCs I use, a Intel NUC with N3050 CPU and a
> Zotac Mini with recent Boradwell CPU.
>
> Please CC me!
>
> Thank you very much in advance and kind regards,
>
> Oliver
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