On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:09:12AM -0600, Peter Miller wrote: >> As for the wifi, I don't see support for the atheros 6174 chipest in >> the man pages, and I don't know if anyone is working on it. As of now >> it is "unknown product" in the dmesg. If it is not soldered in, I >> would be willing to remove it and ship it to a developer, and just >> replace it with a card that is supported. > > Yes, swap it. AFAIK nobody is actively working on atheros drivers. > > Get a device supported by iwn(4) or iwm(4) instead. > Those are currently best for laptops. > > Beware of MiniPCIe vs. M.2 connectors (make sure you get a device > that will actually fit the slot on the motherboard). AFAIK the only > M.2 device we support is the iwm(4) 8260 chip generation.
Thanks Stefan. I was hoping someone might chime in on whether X should be working for my setup or not. I have the Intel HD Graphics 615 (GT2) the device is 8086:591e from https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/tree/src/i915_pciids.h I can see the 591e id is listed, so it looks like the latest Xorg will recognize and support my card. It was added back in November of 2015. https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/src/i915_pciids.h?id=c446a7ccc783e3ca00b4b15d017c6e3af66dc646 from openbsd xenocara http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/xenocara/driver/xf86-video-intel/src/i915_pciids.h?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup it looks like 591e has not been added to OpenBSD yet. So I should not expect the 'intel' driver to work, and also from dmesg I see vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x591e (class display subclass VGA, rev 0x02) at pci0 dev 2 function 0 not configured So despite all this, my understanding is that X should still work, but just with fbdev or vesa for now. I tried setting machdep.allowaperture=1 and 2 and got different error messages. I'm not sure if that is significant. I've only ever set it to 1 as per the install message. As an aside: the faq, https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq11.html, says that the aperture driver must be enabled and can be done by answering 'yes' to the question, 'do you expect to run the X window system' during installation. I said yes and I still had to add machdep.allowaperture=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf. Shouldn't that have happened by answering yes, or does 'yes' set a value somewhere else? This was with the Nov 17 snapshot. with machdep.allowaperture=2 Xorg error is [ 1117.767] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10 [ 1117.768] (EE) VESA(0): V_BIOS address 0x389e0 out of range [ 1117.768] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa" with machdep.allowaperture=1 the error is [ 1792.791] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10 [ 1792.792] (EE) VESA(0): Cannot read int vect [ 1792.792] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa" I forgot to copy the fbdev error output, but it said "module does not exist" Is there any hope with vesa, or do I just wait for the Xorg intel driver support to trickle down to OpenBSD? -- Later Peter
