Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT

Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 09:21:34 -0500
Larry Rosenman <ler_at_lerctr.org> schrieb:

> On 2014-09-20 09:10, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT)
> > Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com> schrieb:
> > 
> >> On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote:
> >> 
> >> > nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD
> >> > 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad
> >> > Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and
> >> > dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly.
> >> 
> >> Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU.  The
> >> extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up
> >> the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving.  I don't know if
> >> versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter 
> >> that
> >> can be used alone are still called "Optimus".
> >> 
> >> Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers
> >> after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI.  If an option to
> >> disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported 
> >> success
> >> with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the 
> >> Nvidia
> >> hardware.
> > 
> > Thanks Warren.
> > 
> > But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even
> > at Lenovo's support
> > forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete
> > adaptor with Optimus
> > technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected
> > exclusively. What you
> > describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD
> > in the first place
> > since the nVidia hardware is a kind of "appendix" to the HD4600.
> > 
> > Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't
> > work properly: it
> > doesn't even start up and loading the "intel" driver complains about a
> > missing device -
> > preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv
> > manner, that this
> > HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind
> > of vga0: entry in
> > the kernel log when enabling "Integrated Graphics" only in the
> > laptop's UEFI/Firmware.
> > When enabling "nVidia Optimus", a recognized vga0: device shows up.
> > 
> > From my server, equipted with a IvyBridge i3-class CPU with integrated
> > iGPU, I even get
> > this message from 11.0-CURRENT:
> > 
> > vgapci0_at_pci0:0:2:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x01521849 chip=0x01528086
> > rev=0x09 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
> >     device     = 'Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics 
> > Controller'
> >     class      = display
> >     subclass   = VGA
> >     bar   [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xf7800000, size 4194304, 
> > enabled
> >     bar   [18] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0xe0000000,
> > size 268435456,
> > enabled bar   [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xf000, size 64, 
> > enabled
> >     cap 05[90] = MSI supports 1 message
> >     cap 01[d0] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> >     cap 13[a4] = PCI Advanced Features: FLR TP
> > 
> > 
> > The very same CURRENT (most recent as I built world on all system 
> > today) doesn't
> > recognize the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU (i5-4200M). So, it seems
> > impossible to me that people
> > can report having this GPU working if even the most recent FreeBSD
> > CURRENT doesn't
> > recognize it.
> for the record, on my Thinkpad W520+Docking Station, I get two HDMI / 
> DVI outputs off the Nvidia GPU, in addition to the
> Intel graphics on the local LCD.   This is under Windows, but.....
> 
> 

Just for the record.

Another box, running as a server with CURRENT on-top of a Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3220 CPU
with Ivy-Bridge HD2500 graphics, crashes/blanks screen when going into graphics mode with
vt() (having kernel modules drm2 and i915kms already loaded via loader.conf).

This hardware is now for two years in use and the CPU is much older.

The CPU is about to be replaced by a XEON E3-1245 v2 with P4000 iGPU graphics (only). At
this moment, I'm highly afraid of having hardware that is not working even with CURRENT.