is 4k desktop possible on freebsd-12?

[Scott Bennett]

Greg V <greg at unrelenting.technology> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Scott Bennett <bennett at sdf.org> wrote:
> > tech lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:
> > 
> >>  On 10/10/2018 11:17, tech-lists wrote:
> >>  > I'm trying to get xorg to display 4k. The context is:
> >>  >
> >>  > FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA8 r339084 amd64
> >>  > ports r481640
> >>  > AMD RX580 GPU
> >>  > Asus X99 Extreme3 mobo
> >>  > cpu: intel e5-2699v4
> >>  > 48GB RAM
> >>  > Samsung UE48JU6410U monitor connected via HDMI
> >>  >
> >>  > drm-next-kmod-4.11.g20180822
> >> 
> >>  Hi, just to follow up to this,
> >> 
> >>  I'd run out of time to work on this so installed latest ubuntu 
> >> desktop,
> >>  then ran xrandr and it showed 4k as the top resolution. I didn't 
> >> have to
> >>  make any modifications:
> >> 
> >>  [snip]
> >>  DisplayPort-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y 
> >> axis)
> >>  HDMI-A-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted 
> >> right x
> >>  axis y axis) 1872mm x 1053mm
> >>     3840x2160     30.00 +  25.00    24.00    29.97    23.98
> >>     4096x2160     30.00    25.00    24.00    29.97    23.98
> >>  [/snip]
> >> 
> >>  and then, additionally, installed boinc-client-opencl and boinc was 
> >> able
> >>  to see the GPUand use it for crunching.
> >> 
> >>  On FreeBSD I couldn't see a way of making the boinc client 
> >> OpenCL-aware.
> > 
> >      Have you installed lang/clover?  If not, then that may be why 
> > you don't
> > see any devices there.  For Nvidia, it would be lang/beignet instead.
>
> beignet is for Intel.
>
> If nvidia provides OpenCL for FreeBSD at all, it would be in 
> nvidia-driver.
>
     Oops.  Thanks for the correction!  I hadn't looked at it in a long time
and apparently misremembered what the lang/beignet/pkg-descr said.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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