CURRENT and HD3000: i915 failing badly

[O. Hartmann]

Hello out there,

I got my hands on a Fujitsu Lifebook E751 manufactured 8/2011. The CPU is
a Core i5-2520M, 4GB RAM and QM67 chipset, with an integrated HD3000 graphics.
The display is on this model a Non-Glare HD+ display (1920x1080, I guess).

Neither FreeBSD 11.1-RELENG from USB flash nor 12-CURRENT as of 25th January
work with the display: after the kernel has booted, I see only distortion and
garbage on the screen. I checked with a recent Ubuntu and the Linux system is
capable of showing nice and fancy graphics - but FreeBSD seems to be incapable
to produce any serious console picture on this 6+ years old HD3000 chipset.
What is the special case on this HD3000 and why isn't FreeBSD supporting it
properly - or am I doing something wrong?

Kind regards,
oh

[Greg]

Post by O. Hartmann
Hello out there,
I got my hands on a Fujitsu Lifebook E751 manufactured 8/2011. The CPU is
a Core i5-2520M, 4GB RAM and QM67 chipset, with an integrated HD3000 graphics.
The display is on this model a Non-Glare HD+ display (1920x1080, I guess).
Neither FreeBSD 11.1-RELENG from USB flash nor 12-CURRENT as of 25th January
work with the display: after the kernel has booted, I see only distortion and
garbage on the screen. I checked with a recent Ubuntu and the Linux system is
capable of showing nice and fancy graphics - but FreeBSD seems to be incapable
to produce any serious console picture on this 6+ years old HD3000 chipset.
What is the special case on this HD3000 and why isn't FreeBSD supporting it
properly - or am I doing something wrong?

Hi.

FreeBSD doesn't load graphics drivers automatically by default. This
looks like a vga/vesa/efi issue. Are you booting with legacy BIOS or
UEFI?

Try loading i915kms blindly (i.e. on the USB installer, pressing Right
and Enter to pick Shell and then running kldload i915kms).

[Cy Schubert]

My laptop, a 2012 vintage Acer with HD3000, has had no such issues under -CURRENT. Though the LCD started to display colored vertical lines last year; replacing it with a new LCD resolved it.

Can you describe the problem further? Maybe a picture of the distortion you describe? What apps are you trying to run. Can you post dmesg, kldstat, and Xorg.0 outputs? What does your xorg.conf look like?

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-----Original Message-----
From: O. Hartmann
Sent: 01/02/2018 04:07
To: freebsd-current
Subject: CURRENT and HD3000: i915 failing badly

Hello out there,

I got my hands on a Fujitsu Lifebook E751 manufactured 8/2011. The CPU is
a Core i5-2520M, 4GB RAM and QM67 chipset, with an integrated HD3000 graphics.
The display is on this model a Non-Glare HD+ display (1920x1080, I guess).

Neither FreeBSD 11.1-RELENG from USB flash nor 12-CURRENT as of 25th January
work with the display: after the kernel has booted, I see only distortion and
garbage on the screen. I checked with a recent Ubuntu and the Linux system is
capable of showing nice and fancy graphics - but FreeBSD seems to be incapable
to produce any serious console picture on this 6+ years old HD3000 chipset.
What is the special case on this HD3000 and why isn't FreeBSD supporting it
properly - or am I doing something wrong?

Kind regards,
oh
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[O. Hartmann]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 07:55:32 -0800

Post by Cy Schubert
My laptop, a 2012 vintage Acer with HD3000, has had no such issues under
-CURRENT. Though the LCD started to display colored vertical lines last year;
replacing it with a new LCD resolved it.
Can you describe the problem further? Maybe a picture of the distortion you
describe? What apps are you trying to run. Can you post dmesg, kldstat, and
Xorg.0 outputs? What does your xorg.conf look like?
---
Sent using a tiny phone keyboard.
Apologies for any typos and autocorrect.
Also, this old phone only supports top post. Apologies.
Cy Schubert
The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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-----Original Message-----
From: O. Hartmann
Sent: 01/02/2018 04:07
To: freebsd-current
Subject: CURRENT and HD3000: i915 failing badly
Hello out there,
I got my hands on a Fujitsu Lifebook E751 manufactured 8/2011. The CPU is
a Core i5-2520M, 4GB RAM and QM67 chipset, with an integrated HD3000 graphics.
The display is on this model a Non-Glare HD+ display (1920x1080, I guess).
Neither FreeBSD 11.1-RELENG from USB flash nor 12-CURRENT as of 25th January
work with the display: after the kernel has booted, I see only distortion and
garbage on the screen. I checked with a recent Ubuntu and the Linux system is
capable of showing nice and fancy graphics - but FreeBSD seems to be incapable
to produce any serious console picture on this 6+ years old HD3000 chipset.
What is the special case on this HD3000 and why isn't FreeBSD supporting it
properly - or am I doing something wrong?
Kind regards,
oh
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Hello all.

First: big apologize.

Me stupid used a set of oldish and outdated FreeBSD boot images and I thought I
had the right ones at hand. They were 10.X and 11.1. Recent CURRENT as of 25th
January as well as most recent CURRENT compiled by myself works without
problems.

Kind regards

Oliver

p.s. Thanks for all the answers.

[Guido Falsi]

Post by O. Hartmann
Hello out there,
I got my hands on a Fujitsu Lifebook E751 manufactured 8/2011. The CPU is
a Core i5-2520M, 4GB RAM and QM67 chipset, with an integrated HD3000 graphics.
The display is on this model a Non-Glare HD+ display (1920x1080, I guess).
Neither FreeBSD 11.1-RELENG from USB flash nor 12-CURRENT as of 25th January
work with the display: after the kernel has booted, I see only distortion and
garbage on the screen. I checked with a recent Ubuntu and the Linux system is
capable of showing nice and fancy graphics - but FreeBSD seems to be incapable
to produce any serious console picture on this 6+ years old HD3000 chipset.
What is the special case on this HD3000 and why isn't FreeBSD supporting it
properly - or am I doing something wrong?

As others have told you you need to load the kms driver, you could
preload it via loader prompt.

otherwise to get to the console I've had luck with the "mode" command at
the loader prompt. mode 0 or mode 2 usually, you can try a few.

I can't find a list of modes to point you to, but it should be a
standard group of vesa modes.

This can be fixed later forcing the console to use the vt driver and
loading the appropriate module.