Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
On 2014-09-28 07:00, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:05:36 +0200 Jan Kokemüller jan.kokemuel...@gmail.com schrieb: And as far as I know: even the Linuxulator is ways behind the recent development and still 32Bit (ancient, so to speak). I do not want myself having lots of outdated hard- and software running and developing on outdated platforms. There is a working 64bit linuxulator in dchagin's project branch. Hopefully it will be merged into head soon, and we'll have full 64bit linux emulation for FreeBSD 11. -- Allan Jude ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 21:21:46 +0200 Koop Mast k...@rainbow-runner.nl schrieb: On Sat, 2014-09-20 at 20:13 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:15:30 +0200 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de schrieb: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 08:27:27 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. Thanks Warren. But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even at Lenovo's support forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete adaptor with Optimus technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected exclusively. What you describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD in the first place since the nVidia hardware is a kind of appendix to the HD4600. Optimus started out that way, but they might use the same name now for models where the additional GPU is a full discrete adapter. I tried to retrieve informations about the settings and implementations in the lenovo E540, but I guess the only answer can be given by developer documentation. I can not figure out how the GPU is attached to the system. The technical specifications do not mention the requirement of a iGPU and shared memory - as Optimus would require. But extrapolating from that shit-covering public relations talking at nVidia's site I guess the GT 740M is definitely a shared memory solution and requires the presence of the iGPU. That would explain why the nvidia BLOB is detecting the GPU, but can not find any physical display socket, not even the built-in LCD. They're maybe wired all throught the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU? Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't work properly: it doesn't even start up and loading the intel driver complains about a missing device - preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv manner, that this HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind of vga0: entry in the kernel log when enabling Integrated Graphics only in the laptop's UEFI/Firmware. When enabling nVidia Optimus, a recognized vga0: device shows up. Whoops, HD4600 is Haswell. The intel driver on FreeBSD does not support Haswell video yet. I suspected that :-( Thanks anyway, Oliver Oh, by the way, where is x11-drivers/xf86-video-noveau? I can only find x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv, which covers old hardware and it is not applicable to the GT 740M (complains, rightfully, that the found device isn't supported by the nv driver). I face a mess here ... :-( It was removed, because we missing kernel support for the nouveau driver. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Without nouveau driver, FreeBSD people do not have the slightes chance to play with OpenCL/libclc on nVidia's hardware. I'm eager to watch the day when even the Radeon driver gets ripped off due to lack of kernel support :-) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
On 28.09.2014 11:41, O. Hartmann wrote: Without nouveau driver, FreeBSD people do not have the slightes chance to play with OpenCL/libclc on nVidia's hardware. Some time in the past it was possible to run CUDA/OpenCL Linux binaries with the Nvidia driver in Linux emulation mode on FreeBSD: https://web.archive.org/web/20121015180221/http://blogs.freebsdish.org/jhb/2010/07/20/using-cuda-with-the-native-freebsdamd64-nvidia-driver Not sure if that still works though. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:05:36 +0200 Jan Kokemüller jan.kokemuel...@gmail.com schrieb: On 28.09.2014 11:41, O. Hartmann wrote: Without nouveau driver, FreeBSD people do not have the slightes chance to play with OpenCL/libclc on nVidia's hardware. Some time in the past it was possible to run CUDA/OpenCL Linux binaries with the Nvidia driver in Linux emulation mode on FreeBSD: https://web.archive.org/web/20121015180221/http://blogs.freebsdish.org/jhb/2010/07/20/using-cuda-with-the-native-freebsdamd64-nvidia-driver Not sure if that still works though. Well, I went through this stuff that time and from the date, you can see its four years in the past! There was also thast promising thing from Pathscale, HMPC ast promising thing from Pathscale, HMPC or similar, now OpenACC. But at the end it was a dream-bubble. And as far as I know: even the Linuxulator is ways behind the recent development and still 32Bit (ancient, so to speak). I do not want myself having lots of outdated hard- and software running and developing on outdated platforms. And it is even worse: some new technology utilizing LLVM, libCLC, most recent MESA libs and the most recent opensource graphics driver provide rudimentary OpenCL support for the GPU - but as I stated in the thread concerning the missing WiFi Intel 7260 support - FreeBSD hasn't even the xf86-video-nouveau driver anymore which is supposed to work best in that scenario. I had very longish discussions in 2010 about this subject - from a naiv non-developer point of view. I was always told, FreeBSD is an OS for servers and we all know, that servers do not rely on graphics hardware that much as it is important for graphics workstations and not at least desktop machines. But what we faced five years ago in science regarding the rapid development of OpenCL and GPGPU showed me very ckearly that GPU hardware is becoming dramatically important. With AMD providing powerful iGPUs and now Intel doing the same, number crunching isn't the domain of physicists and numerical geeks anymore, GEGL starts to incorporate OpenCL and GIMP is about to utilize the GPU as well. BLENDER is utilizing CUDA in Linux and I guess OpenCL is also on the way. And if this isn't convincing: I read about cloud computing with massively parallelized TESLA backends, a typical domain of dump and unexciting hardware and their operating systems. And guess what? The key is obviously the support of the graphical functionality, not necessarily the X11 desktop it self. The project that time in 2010, where we were supposed and inclined to use FreeBSD as the development platform for a highly parallelized application for planetary science imaging was then based on OpenSUSE and Ubuntu Linux and OpenCL. From a simple naive point of view, I can not express deeply enough how excited I was when I saw, how fast the combination of CPUs and GPUs using OpenCL coding could be. What was done in an expensive and professional manner on expensive hardware was developed and tested on cheaper gaming riggs and even on those platforms the boost was tremendous. But not with FreeBSD! All Linux. I think FreeBSD will find its niche in the embedded networking hardware market as long as it still has the faster network stack. But since the Linux folks started to attack this domain in a disgusting PR-ish way, I doubt that even this will last long. Or FreeBSD will show its power with colourless databases. One of the reasons why FreeBSD is still on top of the list of the OSes is the fact of its deep ZFS incorporation - as Matthew Dillon once said: it saved FreeBSD's ass. Well, Dillon developed then HAMMER and showed once again, that the effords in the BSD field are spread all over the area and thinning out as times passes. For FreeBSD, the day when Linux will have its ZFS in-kernel will be devastating - I guess. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 09:21:34 -0500 Larry Rosenman l...@lerctr.org schrieb: On 2014-09-20 09:10, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. Thanks Warren. But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even at Lenovo's support forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete adaptor with Optimus technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected exclusively. What you describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD in the first place since the nVidia hardware is a kind of appendix to the HD4600. Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't work properly: it doesn't even start up and loading the intel driver complains about a missing device - preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv manner, that this HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind of vga0: entry in the kernel log when enabling Integrated Graphics only in the laptop's UEFI/Firmware. When enabling nVidia Optimus, a recognized vga0: device shows up. From my server, equipted with a IvyBridge i3-class CPU with integrated iGPU, I even get this message from 11.0-CURRENT: vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x03 card=0x01521849 chip=0x01528086 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller' class = display subclass = VGA bar [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xf780, size 4194304, enabled bar [18] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0xe000, size 268435456, enabled bar [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xf000, size 64, enabled cap 05[90] = MSI supports 1 message cap 01[d0] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 cap 13[a4] = PCI Advanced Features: FLR TP The very same CURRENT (most recent as I built world on all system today) doesn't recognize the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU (i5-4200M). So, it seems impossible to me that people can report having this GPU working if even the most recent FreeBSD CURRENT doesn't recognize it. for the record, on my Thinkpad W520+Docking Station, I get two HDMI / DVI outputs off the Nvidia GPU, in addition to the Intel graphics on the local LCD. This is under Windows, but. Just for the record. Another box, running as a server with CURRENT on-top of a Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3220 CPU with Ivy-Bridge HD2500 graphics, crashes/blanks screen when going into graphics mode with vt() (having kernel modules drm2 and i915kms already loaded via loader.conf). This hardware is now for two years in use and the CPU is much older. The CPU is about to be replaced by a XEON E3-1245 v2 with P4000 iGPU graphics (only). At this moment, I'm highly afraid of having hardware that is not working even with CURRENT. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 09:21:34 -0500 Just for the record. Another box, running as a server with CURRENT on-top of a Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3220 CPU with Ivy-Bridge HD2500 graphics, crashes/blanks screen when going into graphics mode with vt() (having kernel modules drm2 and i915kms already loaded via loader.conf). Seems to be a known problem. Can you try to start X without having i915kms loaded by the third stage loader? This workaround works for me (i915kms gets loaded by X) //Marcin ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 09:21:34 -0500 Larry Rosenman l...@lerctr.org schrieb: On 2014-09-20 09:10, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. Thanks Warren. But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even at Lenovo's support forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete adaptor with Optimus technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected exclusively. What you describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD in the first place since the nVidia hardware is a kind of appendix to the HD4600. Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't work properly: it doesn't even start up and loading the intel driver complains about a missing device - preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv manner, that this HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind of vga0: entry in the kernel log when enabling Integrated Graphics only in the laptop's UEFI/Firmware. When enabling nVidia Optimus, a recognized vga0: device shows up. From my server, equipted with a IvyBridge i3-class CPU with integrated iGPU, I even get this message from 11.0-CURRENT: vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x03 card=0x01521849 chip=0x01528086 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller' class = display subclass = VGA bar [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xf780, size 4194304, enabled bar [18] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0xe000, size 268435456, enabled bar [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xf000, size 64, enabled cap 05[90] = MSI supports 1 message cap 01[d0] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 cap 13[a4] = PCI Advanced Features: FLR TP The very same CURRENT (most recent as I built world on all system today) doesn't recognize the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU (i5-4200M). So, it seems impossible to me that people can report having this GPU working if even the most recent FreeBSD CURRENT doesn't recognize it. for the record, on my Thinkpad W520+Docking Station, I get two HDMI / DVI outputs off the Nvidia GPU, in addition to the Intel graphics on the local LCD. This is under Windows, but. Fiddling around longer, I realizes now a console message popping up whenever I try to start the nVidia GPU. I have ignored that the whole time: Sep 21 09:38:30 hermann kernel: ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97) Sep 21 09:38:30 hermann kernel: ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97) Sep 21 09:38:30 hermann kernel: ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97) Sep 21 09:38:30 hermann kernel: ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97) Sep 21 09:38:30 hermann kernel: ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97) Sep 21 09:38:30 hermann kernel: ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97) Sep 21 09:38:30 hermann kernel: ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97) Sep 21 09:38:30 hermann kernel: ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97) Sep 21
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. Thanks Warren. But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even at Lenovo's support forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete adaptor with Optimus technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected exclusively. What you describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD in the first place since the nVidia hardware is a kind of appendix to the HD4600. Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't work properly: it doesn't even start up and loading the intel driver complains about a missing device - preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv manner, that this HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind of vga0: entry in the kernel log when enabling Integrated Graphics only in the laptop's UEFI/Firmware. When enabling nVidia Optimus, a recognized vga0: device shows up. From my server, equipted with a IvyBridge i3-class CPU with integrated iGPU, I even get this message from 11.0-CURRENT: vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x03 card=0x01521849 chip=0x01528086 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller' class = display subclass = VGA bar [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xf780, size 4194304, enabled bar [18] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0xe000, size 268435456, enabled bar [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xf000, size 64, enabled cap 05[90] = MSI supports 1 message cap 01[d0] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 cap 13[a4] = PCI Advanced Features: FLR TP The very same CURRENT (most recent as I built world on all system today) doesn't recognize the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU (i5-4200M). So, it seems impossible to me that people can report having this GPU working if even the most recent FreeBSD CURRENT doesn't recognize it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
On 2014-09-20 09:10, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. Thanks Warren. But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even at Lenovo's support forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete adaptor with Optimus technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected exclusively. What you describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD in the first place since the nVidia hardware is a kind of appendix to the HD4600. Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't work properly: it doesn't even start up and loading the intel driver complains about a missing device - preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv manner, that this HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind of vga0: entry in the kernel log when enabling Integrated Graphics only in the laptop's UEFI/Firmware. When enabling nVidia Optimus, a recognized vga0: device shows up. From my server, equipted with a IvyBridge i3-class CPU with integrated iGPU, I even get this message from 11.0-CURRENT: vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x03 card=0x01521849 chip=0x01528086 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller' class = display subclass = VGA bar [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xf780, size 4194304, enabled bar [18] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0xe000, size 268435456, enabled bar [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xf000, size 64, enabled cap 05[90] = MSI supports 1 message cap 01[d0] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 cap 13[a4] = PCI Advanced Features: FLR TP The very same CURRENT (most recent as I built world on all system today) doesn't recognize the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU (i5-4200M). So, it seems impossible to me that people can report having this GPU working if even the most recent FreeBSD CURRENT doesn't recognize it. for the record, on my Thinkpad W520+Docking Station, I get two HDMI / DVI outputs off the Nvidia GPU, in addition to the Intel graphics on the local LCD. This is under Windows, but. -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640 (c) E-Mail: l...@lerctr.org US Mail: 108 Turvey Cove, Hutto, TX 78634-5688 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 16:10:12 +0200 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de schrieb: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. Thanks Warren. But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even at Lenovo's support forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete adaptor with Optimus technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected exclusively. What you describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD in the first place since the nVidia hardware is a kind of appendix to the HD4600. Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't work properly: it doesn't even start up and loading the intel driver complains about a missing device - preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv manner, that this HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind of vga0: entry in the kernel log when enabling Integrated Graphics only in the laptop's UEFI/Firmware. When enabling nVidia Optimus, a recognized vga0: device shows up. From my server, equipted with a IvyBridge i3-class CPU with integrated iGPU, I even get this message from 11.0-CURRENT: vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x03 card=0x01521849 chip=0x01528086 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller' class = display subclass = VGA bar [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xf780, size 4194304, enabled bar [18] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0xe000, size 268435456, enabled bar [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xf000, size 64, enabled cap 05[90] = MSI supports 1 message cap 01[d0] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 cap 13[a4] = PCI Advanced Features: FLR TP The very same CURRENT (most recent as I built world on all system today) doesn't recognize the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU (i5-4200M). So, it seems impossible to me that people can report having this GPU working if even the most recent FreeBSD CURRENT doesn't recognize it. Sorry, on the laptop in question the integrated HD4600 does show up as a vga0: device in the pciconf-listing (it is very early and I stoped looking at the very end ...). signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. Thanks Warren. But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even at Lenovo's support forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete adaptor with Optimus technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected exclusively. What you describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD in the first place since the nVidia hardware is a kind of appendix to the HD4600. Optimus started out that way, but they might use the same name now for models where the additional GPU is a full discrete adapter. Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't work properly: it doesn't even start up and loading the intel driver complains about a missing device - preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv manner, that this HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind of vga0: entry in the kernel log when enabling Integrated Graphics only in the laptop's UEFI/Firmware. When enabling nVidia Optimus, a recognized vga0: device shows up. Whoops, HD4600 is Haswell. The intel driver on FreeBSD does not support Haswell video yet. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: The very same CURRENT (most recent as I built world on all system today) doesn't recognize the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU (i5-4200M). So, it seems impossible to me that people can report having this GPU working if even the most recent FreeBSD CURRENT doesn't recognize it. Sorry, on the laptop in question the integrated HD4600 does show up as a vga0: device in the pciconf-listing (it is very early and I stoped looking at the very end ...). At this point, it's worth trying the vesa driver, which should work on Haswell. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 08:27:27 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. Thanks Warren. But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even at Lenovo's support forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete adaptor with Optimus technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected exclusively. What you describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD in the first place since the nVidia hardware is a kind of appendix to the HD4600. Optimus started out that way, but they might use the same name now for models where the additional GPU is a full discrete adapter. I tried to retrieve informations about the settings and implementations in the lenovo E540, but I guess the only answer can be given by developer documentation. I can not figure out how the GPU is attached to the system. The technical specifications do not mention the requirement of a iGPU and shared memory - as Optimus would require. But extrapolating from that shit-covering public relations talking at nVidia's site I guess the GT 740M is definitely a shared memory solution and requires the presence of the iGPU. That would explain why the nvidia BLOB is detecting the GPU, but can not find any physical display socket, not even the built-in LCD. They're maybe wired all throught the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU? Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't work properly: it doesn't even start up and loading the intel driver complains about a missing device - preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv manner, that this HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind of vga0: entry in the kernel log when enabling Integrated Graphics only in the laptop's UEFI/Firmware. When enabling nVidia Optimus, a recognized vga0: device shows up. Whoops, HD4600 is Haswell. The intel driver on FreeBSD does not support Haswell video yet. I suspected that :-( Thanks anyway, Oliver signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:15:30 +0200 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de schrieb: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 08:27:27 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. Thanks Warren. But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even at Lenovo's support forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete adaptor with Optimus technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected exclusively. What you describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD in the first place since the nVidia hardware is a kind of appendix to the HD4600. Optimus started out that way, but they might use the same name now for models where the additional GPU is a full discrete adapter. I tried to retrieve informations about the settings and implementations in the lenovo E540, but I guess the only answer can be given by developer documentation. I can not figure out how the GPU is attached to the system. The technical specifications do not mention the requirement of a iGPU and shared memory - as Optimus would require. But extrapolating from that shit-covering public relations talking at nVidia's site I guess the GT 740M is definitely a shared memory solution and requires the presence of the iGPU. That would explain why the nvidia BLOB is detecting the GPU, but can not find any physical display socket, not even the built-in LCD. They're maybe wired all throught the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU? Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't work properly: it doesn't even start up and loading the intel driver complains about a missing device - preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv manner, that this HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind of vga0: entry in the kernel log when enabling Integrated Graphics only in the laptop's UEFI/Firmware. When enabling nVidia Optimus, a recognized vga0: device shows up. Whoops, HD4600 is Haswell. The intel driver on FreeBSD does not support Haswell video yet. I suspected that :-( Thanks anyway, Oliver Oh, by the way, where is x11-drivers/xf86-video-noveau? I can only find x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv, which covers old hardware and it is not applicable to the GT 740M (complains, rightfully, that the found device isn't supported by the nv driver). I face a mess here ... :-( signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
On Sat, 2014-09-20 at 20:13 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:15:30 +0200 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de schrieb: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 08:27:27 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. Thanks Warren. But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even at Lenovo's support forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete adaptor with Optimus technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected exclusively. What you describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD in the first place since the nVidia hardware is a kind of appendix to the HD4600. Optimus started out that way, but they might use the same name now for models where the additional GPU is a full discrete adapter. I tried to retrieve informations about the settings and implementations in the lenovo E540, but I guess the only answer can be given by developer documentation. I can not figure out how the GPU is attached to the system. The technical specifications do not mention the requirement of a iGPU and shared memory - as Optimus would require. But extrapolating from that shit-covering public relations talking at nVidia's site I guess the GT 740M is definitely a shared memory solution and requires the presence of the iGPU. That would explain why the nvidia BLOB is detecting the GPU, but can not find any physical display socket, not even the built-in LCD. They're maybe wired all throught the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU? Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't work properly: it doesn't even start up and loading the intel driver complains about a missing device - preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv manner, that this HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind of vga0: entry in the kernel log when enabling Integrated Graphics only in the laptop's UEFI/Firmware. When enabling nVidia Optimus, a recognized vga0: device shows up. Whoops, HD4600 is Haswell. The intel driver on FreeBSD does not support Haswell video yet. I suspected that :-( Thanks anyway, Oliver Oh, by the way, where is x11-drivers/xf86-video-noveau? I can only find x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv, which covers old hardware and it is not applicable to the GT 740M (complains, rightfully, that the found device isn't supported by the nv driver). I face a mess here ... :-( It was removed, because we missing kernel support for the nouveau driver. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
On 09/20/14 07:27, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. Thanks Warren. But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even at Lenovo's support forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete adaptor with Optimus technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected exclusively. What you describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD in the first place since the nVidia hardware is a kind of appendix to the HD4600. Optimus started out that way, but they might use the same name now for models where the additional GPU is a full discrete adapter. Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't work properly: it doesn't even start up and loading the intel driver complains about a missing device - preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv manner, that this HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind of vga0: entry in the kernel log when enabling Integrated Graphics only in the laptop's UEFI/Firmware. When enabling nVidia Optimus, a recognized vga0: device shows up. Whoops, HD4600 is Haswell. The intel driver on FreeBSD does not support Haswell video yet. Is there any kind of status update on Haswell? The wiki has the last update 11 months ago and it's becoming a major useability issue for the operating system. -Nathan ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 21:21:46 +0200 Koop Mast k...@rainbow-runner.nl schrieb: On Sat, 2014-09-20 at 20:13 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:15:30 +0200 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de schrieb: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 08:27:27 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. Optimus is supposed to be full Intel graphics plus an Nvidia GPU. The extra GPU uses the same display memory and can be enabled to speed up the Intel graphics or disabled for power saving. I don't know if versions where the Nvidia section is a full discrete video adapter that can be used alone are still called Optimus. Some Optimus owners have reported being able to use the Intel drivers after disabling the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS or UEFI. If an option to disable the Nvidia GPU is not present, some people have reported success with an xorg.conf that uses only the intel driver and ignores the Nvidia hardware. Thanks Warren. But this sounds even more frustrating now. I look around the web even at Lenovo's support forum. Many people report the GT 740M nVidia adaptor as a discrete adaptor with Optimus technology and everything sounds to me like it can be selected exclusively. What you describes is that I definitely need to use the HD4600 iGPU on FreeBSD in the first place since the nVidia hardware is a kind of appendix to the HD4600. Optimus started out that way, but they might use the same name now for models where the additional GPU is a full discrete adapter. I tried to retrieve informations about the settings and implementations in the lenovo E540, but I guess the only answer can be given by developer documentation. I can not figure out how the GPU is attached to the system. The technical specifications do not mention the requirement of a iGPU and shared memory - as Optimus would require. But extrapolating from that shit-covering public relations talking at nVidia's site I guess the GT 740M is definitely a shared memory solution and requires the presence of the iGPU. That would explain why the nvidia BLOB is detecting the GPU, but can not find any physical display socket, not even the built-in LCD. They're maybe wired all throught the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU? Anyway, I also tried to configure X11 as HD4600 only and X11 doesn't work properly: it doesn't even start up and loading the intel driver complains about a missing device - preceeded by a lot of /dev/dri errors. This indicates to me, in a naiv manner, that this HD4600 isn't recodnized by the kernel, either. I do not see any kind of vga0: entry in the kernel log when enabling Integrated Graphics only in the laptop's UEFI/Firmware. When enabling nVidia Optimus, a recognized vga0: device shows up. Whoops, HD4600 is Haswell. The intel driver on FreeBSD does not support Haswell video yet. I suspected that :-( Thanks anyway, Oliver Oh, by the way, where is x11-drivers/xf86-video-noveau? I can only find x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv, which covers old hardware and it is not applicable to the GT 740M (complains, rightfully, that the found device isn't supported by the nv driver). I face a mess here ... :-( It was removed, because we missing kernel support for the nouveau driver. So, every new GPU not supported by xf86-video-nv has to use nVidia's BLOB then? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:12 PM, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVidia GT 740M (Optimus) working correctly. The systems boots FreeBSD off via UEFI. First of all: I tried versions 340.24, 340.32 and Beta 343.13 all with the very same results. Symptoms: a) Loading kernel module nvidia via /boot/load.conf freezes the system after the UEFI/EFI loader message shows up. Loading the kernel module vi kld_load= in /etc/rc.conf[.local] works so far regarding loading and booting the kernel. b) No display socket is recognized by the nvidia driver resulting in a blank vt() screen after X has been started. I tried many different configurations, but at the end I suspect that nVidia's Optimus technology may be the culprit. The documentation of nVidia's driver for FreeBSD states that after the Xserver has started it logs in Xorg.0.log (or whatever display number is used) the available display sockets like (taken from the documents): (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on Quadro 6000 at PCI:10:0:0 (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-0 (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-1 (--) NVIDIA(0): DELL U2410 (DFP-0) (connected) (--) NVIDIA(0): NEC LCD1980SXi (DFP-1) (connected) Nothing that similar shows up in my environment, but this: [...] [58.656] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:0416:17aa:502a rev 6, Mem @ 0xf100/4194304, 0xe000/268435456, I/O @ 0x6000/64, BIOS @ 0x/65536 [58.659] (--) PCI: (0:1:0:0) 10de:1292:17aa:502a rev 161, Mem @ 0xf000/16777216, 0xc000/268435456, 0xd000/33554432, I/O @ 0x5000/128 [58.662] (II) extmod will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. [58.662] (II) dbe will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. [...] [60.055] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration [60.485] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GT 740M (GK208) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0) [60.486] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 2097152 kBytes [60.486] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 80.28.25.00.27 [60.486] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 8X [60.486] (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on GeForce GT 740M at PCI:1:0:0 [60.487] (--) NVIDIA(0): none [60.487] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes: [60.487] (II) NVIDIA(0): NULL [60.487] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 640 x 480 [60.488] (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device for DPI computation. [60.488] (==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default [60.488] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp [60.489] (II) NVIDIA: Reserving 3072.00 MB of virtual memory for indirect memory [60.489] (II) NVIDIA: access. [60.492] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode NULL [60.493] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initiate mode change. [60.493] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to complete mode change [60.553] (II) NVIDIA(0): Built-in logo is bigger than the screen. [60.573] (II) Loading extension NV-GLX [...] Confusing is that in the lines [58.656] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:0416:17aa:502a rev 6, Mem @ 0xf100/4194304, 0xe000/268435456, I/O @ 0x6000/64, BIOS @ 0x/65536 [58.659] (--) PCI: (0:1:0:0) 10de:1292:17aa:502a rev 161, Mem @ 0xf000/16777216, 0xc000/268435456, 0xd000/33554432, I/O @ 0x5000/128 both, the Intel iGPU HD4600 (PCI:*(0:0:2:0)) and the nVidia dedicated GPU GT 740M (PCI: (0:1:0:0)) show up. The more scaring part is then (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s): No display device is shown although the notebook has a built-in display, a DisplayPort port as well as a VGA port. On all nVidia dedicated graphics boards I use on diffrent other machines with the very same driver EVERY possible connector/socket shows up. The laptop has EFI/UEFI EFI Version: 2.31 EFI Firmware: Lenovo (re. 05648) The problem is present no matter whether the drm2 and i915kms kernel moules are loaded or not. What is wrong here? Any chance to get the nVidia GPU to work? I use at the moment xf86-video-scfb which is a pain in the ass and absolutely not usable, even with a faster CPU. Under average load the whole laptop screen is like a slide show. Please CC me. My laptop has an integrated graphics (HD4000) and a nvidia GPU (GT650M). It also has optimus. It has a VGA output, a HDMI output, and the internal LCD. Using the intel driver, I can use the internal LCD and VGA. Using the nvidia driver, I can use the HDMI. To use the nvidia driver, I have to use acpi_call to turn on or initialize the nvidia card first. My guess is that my HDMI port is conencted to the nvidia card, and maybe all the ports
