Intel Brasswell, NUC, iGPU and VESA driver on CURRENT

[Ben Woods]

On Monday, 7 March 2016, Alexander Mishurov <alexander.m.mishurov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>
Indeed, using scfb should work for you instead of vesa.

I previously provided someone on this list with some instructions on how to
use get FreeBSD working with the scfb driver. See here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2016-February/017154.html

Good luck!

Regards,
Ben


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