My HP Envy laptop boots NetBSD-current in EFI mode for quite some time now, perhaps a year. The GeForce 950M doesn't work, as expected, but the Intel 530 now works perfectly fine with full 3D acceleration and quite decent full screen video.
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 20:32, Frank Kardel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Same EFI issue here: EFI/GK208B [GeForce GT 710] gets stuck when > attempting to configure the card. > > Booting via CSM or EFI and nouveau disabled gets the machine up and > nouveau works fine with acceleration in the CSM case. > > Looking at the PCI configuration the main difference is that the CSM > sets the BusMaster bits to enabled on the bridges while this is not the > case for EFI. > > Also more IO/MEM/ROM bits are set. > > I think we still lack sufficient PCI setup when booting via EFI. > > (lspci dumps are available on request). > > Frank > > > On 06/05/19 11:25, Patrick Welche wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 01:03:49PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote: > >> On another front, I cannot boot a computer with nouveau and a > >> NVidia GeForce GTX 680 (GK104). At the point where the console normally > >> changes resolution, the screen goes black and everything stops. > >> (No panic AFAICT) > > This has changed! The above is still true with EFI, but with BIOS booting, > > nouveau attaches successfully, and I can run xdm+twm! The experience > > is exactly the opposite to the one with Sandy Bridge: images display fine, > > glmark2 runs. It's the fonts which are unreadable (not a question of size > > but of artifacts. This is in 3840x???? mode. Still, at least I no longer > > have to disable nouveau in order to boot! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Patrick > -- ----
