On 11/24/2018 10:04 PM, renodr via blfs-support wrote:
On 2018-11-24 20:49, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote:
On 11/24/2018 06:25 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 11:33:35AM -0600, rhubarbpieguy via
blfs-support wrote:
The Xorg Intel Driver-20180223 documentation states the following
regarding
kernel configuration:
Only one of the lines “Intel I810” or “Intel 8xx/9xx...” needs
to be
selected.
I see no "Intel i810" option with make menuconfig.
Also, "If you select the latter, “Enable modesetting...” is needed
too."
confuses me. I assume that refers to "Intel 8xx/9xx..." However, I
don't
see that specific option, does it refer to 'Kernel modesetting
driver for
MGA G200 server engines?' I don't see another KMS option.
I'm not sure what happened to the I810, and not really interested -
it predated modern intel CPUs.
Agree. We can probably just delete everything in that paragraph after
the first sentence.
I honestly think it'd be smart to pull up the Kernel Configuration
section in the Index and verify that every package that has special
kernel configuration hasn't had it's options moved.
We need a volunteer for that. The current editors' plates are pretty full.
-- Bruce
Modesetting is probably now activated by DRM_KMS_HELPER, and that is
now selected by at least the main in-kernel DRM drivers. Kernel
options change, the book does not always keep up.
DRM_KMS_HELPER is selected by several different combinations of
options, but it is not selected directly. For me it is
DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION [=y] && HAS_IOMEM [=y] && DRM [=y]
While I was checking on this I noticed that Skylake and later
apparently need firmware to get the graphics working. I either
didn't know, or had forgotten, that.
My skylake (i5-6500) originally had no firmware and did not have a
problem with graphics. I am now using microcode-06-5e-03.img as an
initrd now, but I don't think that does anything for graphics.
-- Bruce
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