On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 11:57:18AM -0600, Peter Miller wrote:
>> 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
>
> The intel xorg driver doesn't do much of anything now.  The inteldrm
> driver in the kernel is what does the modesetting and memory management.
> It does not currently support the generation of hardware you have
> (kaby lake).
>
>>
>> So despite all this, my understanding is that X should still work, but
>> just with fbdev or vesa for now.
>
> I believe the wsfb xorg driver should work with efifb.
>
>>
>> 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
>>

thank you! I never new about wsfb, but that did the trick.

thanks again, and thanks to everyone involved in OpenBSD


-- 
Later
Peter

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