CFT update day 2

Matthew Macy mmacy at nextbsd.org
Mon May 23 21:37:36 UTC 2016


        

        
            Please try patching. The new xf86-intel barely works at all for bapt on his broadwell. Believe it or not, I have not had time to test the new X bits myself. It should all work "eventually" but there is a lot to cover and I'm not at all familiar with the user side bits.Sorry for top posting. Zoho's iOS client is kind of broken.-M---- On Mon, 23 May 2016 14:30:51 -0700  Matthias Haas<freebsd-x11 at mathaas.de> wrote ----That was the first thing I tried, but it's too old to even recognize the  gpu, I guess there are only some pci ids or something similar missing, I  may try patching them in tomorrow if I can find out what exactly is  missing.  On 2016-05-23 23:21, Matthew Macy wrote: > Have you tried with the xf86-intel in ports. That actually works > better for most. Also try SNA. What does pciconf -lvbc show for > graphics? >  > ---- On Mon, 23 May 2016 14:17:41 -0700 Matthias > Haas<freebsd-x11 at mathaas.de> wrote ---- >  >> First of all thanks for your great work so far. >>  >> I have tried the driver on my notebook with Iris 550. >> After patching libdrm with >>  > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/commit/?id=e3623d34cad0ac3f181b0deee0931df202b8f909 >> [1] >> and installing the experimental xf86-video-intel driver it is >> partially >> working. >> What's not working is: >> - 3D-acceleration >> - multi-monitor support (only tried with hdmi), after loading the >> i915kms driver the output is duplicated, but there is no way of >> controlling the outputs independently (xfce also shows only one >> connected display) >> - Xorg refuses to start unless I kldload i915kms manually before >> trying >> to start Xorg >> - there are some rendering issues (pink lines, weird transparency >> where >> there should be no transparency), but I don't know if these are >> related >> to i915, the experimental xf86-video-intel driver or the software >> renderer >>  >> On 2016-05-23 10:12, Matthew Macy wrote: >>> The highlights for today are the following: >>>  >>> Bug fixes: >>> - Will Andrews fixed attach for some laptops (such as the Carbon >> X1). >>> The Carbon X1 has a quirky BIOS that doesn't allow the OS to >>> enumerate the GPU's interrupt. >>> - Will Andrews identified a conditionally uninitialized return in >>> idr_find that could lead to a panic in some cases. >>> - Fixed a panic in mtrr_del frequently seen when attach failed. >>> - Sleep/wakeups with interrupts are largely implemented correctly >>> now. Previously a polling 10ms sleep was used. I'm still >>> concerned that the code really needs to be level-triggered. >>>  >>> Cleanups: >>> - Logging is now enabled for the first 10s after attach unless >>> dev.drm.drm_debug_keep=1. >>> - Unimplemented warnings are off by default. >>>  >>> As of this moment the latest USB image is: >>> http://www.bsddesktop.com/images/cftdisk_2016052307.img.xz [2] >>>  >>> The USB image now has sync disabled on var. This should improve >>> responsiveness for most people with slow USB pen drives. If >>> you're having issues that require retaining logs you'll need >>> to "zfs set sync=enabled zrootusb/var". >>>  >>> The USB image now includes kde4 and xfce. It is also much larger, >> for >>> this iteration you will need a 16GB USB key. The next one will >> probably >>> not be quite so large. If size is a common problem let me know. >> It's >>> difficult to buy a USB key that is less than 16GB today. >>>  >>> joeuser's .xinitrc is configured to start xfce with startx. To >> start >>> kde >>> run: service kdm4 onestart. >>>  >>> Note that the image name has changed. The most recent should be >>> self-evident in: http://www.bsddesktop.com/images [3] >>>  >>> Helpful hint: use a 1MB blocksize for dd and run gpart recover >>> to fix label warnings. Assuming your USB pen drive shows up as >>> /dev/da0 and cftdisk image is the one I just posted: >>>  >>> unxz -f cftdisk_2016052307.img.xz; dd if=cftdisk_2016052307.img >>> of=/dev/da0 bs=1M; gpart recover da0 >>>  >>> And as a reminder, if you're having problems with X on the USB >>> key, try disabling it by moving /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf >>  >>> somewhere else on your file system. >>>  >>> If using the github repo, make sure you're using the drm-next-4.6 >>> branch. >>>  >>> Cheers. >>>  >>> -M >>>  >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org mailing list >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 [4] >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe at freebsd.org" >  >  > Links: > ------ > [1] > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/commit/?id=e3623d34cad0ac3f181b0deee0931df202b8f909 > [2] http://www.bsddesktop.com/images/cftdisk_2016052307.img.xz > [3] http://www.bsddesktop.com/images > [4] https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 
        
        

    
    



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