There was a post made on the forums just recently that said that using |i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 | on the kernel command lijne makes it work for at least some Skylake chips with the standard CentOS kernel.
Skylake support is *meant* to be in 7.2 onwards. | |On 20/09/16 15:46, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Hi again, > > as posted a short while ago, I have a new Acer Aspire E5-575G-55DE > laptop and am trying to get C7 running on it. > > This laptop has an intel i5-6200U with integrated HD Graphics 520. It > also has an nvidia GeForce GTX 950M. > Installing kmod-nvidia and bumblebee as explained [1] results in the > "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" screen. I suspect that's because the > regular C7 kernel and xorg-x11-drv-intel don't support the intel 520. > > Booting into kernel-lt, it seems the intel 520 works...? This is > surprising because Farkas Levente's recent post to this list suggested > that a newer xorg-x11-drv-intel should be needed, in addition to the > newer kernel. But I have a bunch of OK-looking intel messages in > /var/log/Xorg.0.log , and glxinfo says: > OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Skylake ULT GT2 > > Question 1: does this mean the intel 520 works fully under kernel-lt? > If not, what should I look at? > > > Assuming the intel GPU works under kernel-lt, I could then hope to get > nvidia and bumblebee working. I've been using the elrepo nvidia > drivers for ages, but I could use the nvidia-provided installer and > hope it doesn't clobber anything (which I doubt...). > Question 2: any caveats here? > > Finally I would need to get bumblebee working, otherwise the nvidia > stuff is useless. However, bumblebee requires kmod-bbswitch... > Question 3: I guess I would have to rebuild bbswitch [2] for > kernel-lt, but could I still use the elrepo-provided bumblebee ? > > > Thanks for any advice anyone can provide. > Regards, > Nicolas > > > > [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/bumblebee > [2] https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch > _______________________________________________ > elrepo mailing list > elrepo@lists.elrepo.org > http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________
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