> On Jan 14, 2018, at 12:32, Eric Furman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 14, 2018, at 12:53 PM, Nils Reuße wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> i got a new board (ASRock J3455-ITX) that's based intels apollo lake 
>> SoC.  I've updated the bios to the latest version (1.4) and all things i 
>> need are supported by openbsd out of the box on 6.2-current, except for 
>> the graphic chip, an integrated Intel HD Graphics 500 chip.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, when i boot the system, the screen goes black very soon 
>> (after the cpu info scrolls by) and then it never fully boots (login via 
>> ssh is not possible), so i cannot see or check what's wrong.
>> 
>> If i disable inteldrm on boot, the system boots, ssh works and i can use 
>> the system.  Trying to start X fails however.
>> 
>> As i intend to use the system as a headless server, i do not really care 
>> if the card really works, but i'd like to be able to boot the system 
>> without disabling inteldrm every time.
>> 
>> This is the firmware i've currently installed:
>> 
>>   $ doas fw_update -i
>>   Installed: intel-firmware-20180108
>> 
>> The graphics card shows as
>> 
>>   vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x5a85 
>> rev 0x0b
>> 
>> Is anyone else here using this board, or is this error due to some 
>> changes in the recent snapshots? Any help is appreciated.
> 
> This is not an OBSD specific problem.
> Intel integrated graphics is crap.
> They cause problems for a lot of people.
> Do yourself a favor and disable the integrated graphics
> and get yourself any cheap graphics card.
> Preferably AMD based.
> 

I have the same motherboard running the 2018-01-06 snapshot just fine, albeit 
without inteldrm installed (according to fw_update -i). 





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