Intel Kaby Lake Support
Patrick Powell
papowell at astart.com
Sat May 6 23:40:40 UTC 2017
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On 05/05/17 17:49, Mylan Connolly wrote:
> Update!
>
> Compiling world and kernel and then installing them from the git repo
> provided above did the trick.
>
> I'm going to do some testing to see how reliable it is but the Intel GPU is
> loading and rendering without needing any custom x files.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On May 5, 2017 4:56 PM, "Michael Jung" <mikej at mikej.com> wrote:
>
>> Mylan:
>>
>> If you look at the FreeBSD handbook compiling world and kernel is easy.
>>
>> Provided you have installed the source tree from the installation media
>> or downloaded the source tree via svn
>>
>> #cd /usr/src
>> # /usr/src/
>> # /usr/src/ make buildkernel && make buildworld
>> # /usr/src/ make installkernel && make installworld
>> # reboot
>>
>> If you look at /usr/src/Makefile there are more detailed and recommended
>> steps for compiling and installing kernel world than I have shown.
>>
>> I've been doing this since Freebsd 2.2 - If you
>> have ever built a linux kernels you will find this pretty simple.
>>
>> There or other things one should do - read up on mergemaster and etsupdate
>> these tools will help you automate updating rc scripts and configuration
>> files that
>> are supplied with FreeBSD.
>>
>> FreeBSD trails in the latest things like video drivers but in a server
>> environment I love it because if you must stay patched because of CVE's and
>> they are application patches there are rarely times that an updated kernel
>> must be
>> installed and hence a reboot.
>>
>> Enjoy
>>
>> Michael Jung
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2017-05-05 16:19, Mylan Connolly wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the tip. I think I will check out compiling from the github
>>> repo.
>>>
>>> I never have built FreeBSD world or kernel from source before so it'll be
>>> interesting and hopefully a good learning exercise.
>>>
>>> Will post back with new information.
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 05/05/2017 12:52, Mylan Connolly wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>> Before I start, I want to mention that I am quite new to FreeBSD
>>>>> (although
>>>>> I have been using Linux for quite a long time).
>>>>>
>>>>> I decided to try out FreeBSD 12-CURRENT because of how new my hardware
>>>>> is
>>>>> and 11.0-RELEASE was unable to detect any of my networking interfaces.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a laptop (Alienware 13 R3) which has an Intel 630 GPU. I
>>>>> attempted
>>>>> to get it working by loading the i915kms module and then starting X
>>>>> (using
>>>>> startx with XFCE4 set up), but X was using the scfb driver (which I
>>>>> think
>>>>> is the UEFI frame buffer driver?).
>>>>>
>>>>> If I create a file `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/intel.conf with the following
>>>>> contents, X is unable to find a screen:
>>>>>
>>>>> Section "Device"
>>>>> Identifier "Card0"
>>>>> Driver "intel"
>>>>> # BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
>>>>> EndSection
>>>>>
>>>>> So it kind of looks to me like my chip isn't supported by the driver out
>>>>> of
>>>>> the box yet (I understand Kaby Lake is still quite recent, so it's
>>>>> understandable).
>>>>>
>>>>> Right now I have the following X video drivers installed:
>>>>>
>>>>> xf86-video-intel-2.99.917.20170228
>>>>> xf86-video-scfb-0.0.4_5
>>>>> xorg-server-1.18.4,1
>>>>>
>>>>> If anyone has any tips to help me out I'd really appreciate it. If I
>>>>> need
>>>>> to provide additional information I'd be glad to, just don't know
>>>>> exactly
>>>>> what all is necessary at this point.
>>>>>
>>>>> you have two options with the Intel Kabylake GPU. TrueOS (
>>>> www.trueos.org)
>>>> is very closely aligned with the FreeBSD project. They have incorporated
>>>> bits from work to update GPU support on FreeBSD. You can also build your
>>>> own world and kernel from the github repo where this work is happening:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics
>>>>
>>>> This is what I do on my Kabylake and Skylake sysetms, and can confirm it
>>>> works quite well. You'll want to checkout the drm-next branch, then
>>>> perform a build of the complete world and kernel from there. you should
>>>> be
>>>> able to do this from your existing 12-CURRENT installation. but to
>>>> verify
>>>> this branch works on your harware you can try the live image from the
>>>> TrueOS project before investing in building everything locally.
>>>>
>>>> -pete
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Pete Wright
>>>> pete at nomadlogic.org
>>>> @nomadlogicLA
>>>>
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