On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 16:20 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:24:08PM +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> > 
> > I also installed the following firmware:
> > /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_ver9_14.bin
> > /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_huc_ver02_00_1810.bin
> > /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin
> 
> Those three are for the video ?  If so, we are out of date in saying
> that only ATI needs needs firmware.  Actually, I suspect that some
> nvidia might also need firmware.
> 

They are all for Intel HD Graphics for Kabylake (kbl).
See https://01.org/linuxgraphics/intel-linux-graphics-firmwares for other 
firmware products.
I initially had the following error prior installing any firmware blobs:

Apr 22 10:16:23 localhost kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: Direct firmware load for 
i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin failed with error -2
Apr 22 10:16:23 localhost kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: Failed to load DMC 
firmware [https://01.org/linuxgraphics/intel-linux-graphics-firmwares], 
disabling runtime power management.

I figured I should install all 3 available firmware blobs just in case.
Only the DMC loads, the other two are not being loaded.

I can also see the following:
Apr 26 18:25:23 jupiter kernel: [drm] GuC firmware load skipped

Which I read somewhere that it might be disabled on purpose by the developers.


> Whilst trying to find out about those I found a post on debian
> saying that the xorg server's modesetting driver is preferred for
> intel video except for very old chips - of course, debian probably
> aren't using a recent git version of it, but that might explain why
> there have be no releases.
> 

I cannot really comment on Xorg as I no longer install the full package.
i.e. I use Wayland (Gnome) which includes Xwayland.

> ĸen
> -- 
>  Error: ( : 1) not enough arguments
> 
> Don't you just love Tiny scheme ?

Wayne.
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