Iris Pro P6300 intel X11 driver (was Re: intro)

[Tom Rushworth]

Hi All,

On 23/10/2017 02:40, Greg V via freebsd-x11 wrote:
> On 10/23/2017 09:17, Scott Bennett wrote:
>
>> Tom Rushworth <tom.b.rushworth at gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]
>>>
>>> Suggestion 2 - try TrueOS
>>       TrueOS *is* FreeBSD 12 (at the moment) at its heart.
> Well, TrueOS is based on the drm-next fork, which updates i915kms &
> amdgpu to match modern Linux (currently 4.12):
> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics
>
> Plain FreeBSD -CURRENT does not have the new graphics drivers, it only
> supports Intel GPUs up to and including Haswell, but you can set it up
> easily now…

Aha - that makes things much clearer, thanks.

[snip]
> The new graphics drivers (drm-next) are available as a port now, instead
> of the fork:
> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm
> https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-next-kmod
>
> Just install graphics/drm-next-kmod, configure rc.conf to load it like
> the post-install message says, and reboot.
> In Xorg, you can try both intel (SNA) and modesetting (Glamor) drivers.
> modesetting tends to have hard-to-defeat screen tearing, but it's fast,
> lightweight and reliable.

I've only used the intel driver for about an hour so far and only for 
light window usage (exploring TrueOS apps), but there hasn't been any 
noticable lack of speed.  Once I get the plain FreeBSD-current working I 
will try both drivers just out of curiosity.

[snip]

A bit off topic, but TrueOS offered to install rEFInd (which I use on my 
Mac) so I'll probably keep both FreeBSD-current and TrueOS in a dual 
boot setup.

Thanks again!

Regards,

-- 
Tom Rushworth