Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block <wbl...@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@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.
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