Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 09:45:56 +0200 From: Juan =?iso-8859-1?b?UmFt824=?= Molina Menor <listjm@club-internet.fr> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, natbsd@instinctive.eu Subject: How to have accelerated graphics with Intel Celeron J1800 (Bay Trail) ? Message-ID: <578C8934.2010705@club-internet.fr>
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> Hello, > > I recently bought a fanless PC based on Intel Celeron J1800 and its > embedded graphics, and now I'm asking the stupid question of how to > make graphics acceleration work. > > As far as I can tell, this chip belongs to the microarchitecture > codenamed "Bay Trail", which sits between "Ivy Bridge" and "Haswell". > That's circa 2013. > > According tohttps://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics "Ivy Bridge" is already > well supported, while "Haswell" should be in 11.0, so I was reasonably > hopeful to see my "Bay Trail" work. > > Going with a 10.3-RELEASE, I `pkg install`ed minimal graphics stuff, > including xf86-video-intel, but it didn't found any screen. > xf86-video-vesa does work fine but without acceleration. > > So I assumed that "Ivy Bridge" was the last supported microarchitecture, > and that my "Bay Trail" was too recent for the driver. > > So I took the 11.0-BETA1 recently released, and did the same thing (I > was a bit surprised to find a pkg repository, but I won't complain), but > I was to see the same results. Even xf86-driver-scfb cannot find a > screen. > > So my question is, what can I do now? Is my hardware definitely > unsupported? Is there something special to do to enable the new i915? > > If you have the patience to cut-and-paste or link to instruction for > scfb, I would welcome it was well, but I admit not having done much > research (I don't even know whether `kern.vty` at "vt" means it should > work or it shouldn't) so I would understand if you let me search more on > it before helping in that direction. > > > Thanks in advance for your help, > Natasha Hi Natasha. Matthew Macy has done a lot of work recently to support relatively recent Intel GPUs in CURRENT. The development branch is in GitHub, I suggest you to start here: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/wiki As for your Bay Trail chip, there is an open bug: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/issues/6 Concerning the scfb driver, I’ve used it with success (but only in a Haswell chip) by just adding the following lines to xorg.conf: Section "Device" Identifier "Generic FB" Driver "scfb" # Option "NoAccel" "True" # Both work, test it EndSection Hope it helps, Juan
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