i915kms - compiled 297155

[Kevin Oberman]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 2:11 AM, Stefan Wendler <stefan.wendler at tngtech.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 03/23/16 07:15, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:36:13 +0100 (CET)
> > Stefan Wendler <stefan.wendler at tngtech.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I updated my local 11-CURRENT to r29715 and even though I did load
> i915kms
> >> xorg still complains that no intel devices have been found. Did I miss
> >> something here?
> >>
> >> Sorry for asking dumb questions ;)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Stefan
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> >
> > Could you provide some informations on your hardware? Like the first
> couple of
> > rows of "dmesg" or specifially details about your hardware?
> >
> > i915kms in its recent incarnation doe not support most recent iGPUs as
> found in
> > Broadwell, Braswell and Skylake (that is roughly now 1 1/2 years back in
> time).
> > Haswell is initially supported but seems to have still trouble. The
> codebase is
> > Linux kernel 3.8 - compared to upcoming Linux 4.6 and its real nice
> support.
> >
> > A nice entry point for investigating is
> >
> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
> >
> > Have a look.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > oh
> >
> Hi,
>
> I know that it's working, I helped testing it ;) that's why I was
> looking forward that it is in head now. But after getting the above
> mentioned revision going I did load i915kms, drm, drm2 after reboot and
> xorg says "No screens found" and "No Devices found". I tested with the
> latest PC-BSD 11-CURRENT and there it works as expected. So I must have
> forgotten something. The Question is what ...
>
> FYI: My hardware is a i7-4910HQ
>
>
" I did load i915kms, drm, drm2"? As far as I know, drm and drm2 don't play
together. I believe you should only be loading drm2. Or just let the system
auto-load them as needed. Starting X should load the required modules for
you.
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