Re: CURRENT and HD3000: i915 failing badly

From: Greg <greg_at_unrelenting.technology>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 15:32:10 +0300
On 02/01, O. Hartmann wrote:
>Hello out there,
>
>I got my hands on a Fujitsu Lifebook E751 manufactured 8/2011. The CPU is
>a Core i5-2520M, 4GB RAM and QM67 chipset, with an integrated HD3000 graphics.
>The display is on this model a Non-Glare HD+ display (1920x1080, I guess).
>
>Neither FreeBSD 11.1-RELENG from USB flash nor 12-CURRENT as of 25th January
>work with the display: after the kernel has booted, I see only distortion and
>garbage on the screen. I checked with a recent Ubuntu and the Linux system is
>capable of showing nice and fancy graphics - but FreeBSD seems to be incapable
>to produce any serious console picture on this 6+ years old HD3000 chipset.
>What is the special case on this HD3000 and why isn't FreeBSD supporting it
>properly - or am I doing something wrong?

Hi.

FreeBSD doesn't load graphics drivers automatically by default. This 
looks like a vga/vesa/efi issue. Are you booting with legacy BIOS or 
UEFI?

Try loading i915kms blindly (i.e. on the USB installer, pressing Right 
and Enter to pick Shell and then running kldload i915kms).
Received on Thu Feb 01 2018 - 11:38:50 UTC

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