From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 20 00:33:28 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D99B349A; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:33:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from s-tlk@s-tlk.org) Received: from mail.s-tlk.org (s-tlk.org [178.63.70.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5429422F1; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.3.6] (unknown [10.0.3.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.s-tlk.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 242A7AE12D8; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 02:27:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 02:27:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Michael Schnell X-X-Sender: michi@priv.s-tlk.org To: Aleksandr Rybalko Subject: Re: what is the status of KMS support in newcons? In-Reply-To: <20130920022307.1bc503ee.ray@freebsd.org> Message-ID: References: <523A81BA.7030903@reynoldsnet.org> <20130920022307.1bc503ee.ray@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: John Reynolds , current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:33:28 -0000 On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:46:50 -0700 > John Reynolds wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I was just wondering what the status of KMS support with newcons is? >> About 6 weeks ago I got some help on x11@ and much was said about KMS >> (and the lack of support for the 'newer' Haswell graphics). somebody >> mentioned that one of the problems where the "console goes away" once >> you fire up X was that the console driver didn't support KMS, so you >> could never really successfully alt-Ctrl-bksp and kill X (or exit >> cleanly) and get back to your VT. Word was said that this problem was >> being worked on and hopefully would get brought in towards the "tail >> end of august." >> >> So, am just wondering what the status of that project is? >> >> thanks, >> >> -Jr >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Hello John! > > I can't say anything about Haswell support, but newcons works, > sometimes :) Just not now. There is currently no Haswell graphic support in Current. I've a new Dell Latitude E7240 with a Core i5 4200 and i915kms didn't attach to it. I added then support and managed to start the X server, but there were quite some changes necessary, e.g adding the ID and feature set to agp, i915 and drm2, plus some changes in registers etc. Perhaps it's better to directly import the latest version from the linux kernel? I also suffered some problems now with this version like I cannot shutdown the machine anymore. The display freezes (with my desktop background, not going black as expected without newcons) and what is worse there is no dump. > I've currently doing some redesign, so it is broken last week. > Hope I will done something for wide testing in a week or so, but I'm > afraid it will not be fully done to be shipped with 10.0. > > I will let you and others to know when something will happen :) That sounds great. Greetings Michael