Re: CFT update day 2

From: Matthias Haas <freebsd-x11_at_mathaas.de>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 23:30:51 +0200
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
>>> 
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> 
> 
> 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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