Re: [elrepo] skylake and nvidia

[Trevor Hemsley]

Perhaps worth trying to fall back to the old UXA acceleration method?

Option  "AccelMethod"  "uxa"


On 22/09/16 19:41, russell.poffenber...@xcerra.com wrote:
>
> Hi Akemi,
>
> Thanks for the link, but none of the info made a difference. The only
> thing I found was that trying to have the Xorg configuration, without
> setting i915.preliminary_hw_support set to 1 will cause the system to
> crash when it tries to start X.
>
> Guess I will have to wait until there is a newer kernel.
>
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> From: Akemi Yagi <amy...@gmail.com>
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> Date: 09/22/2016 10:47 AM
> Subject:  Re: [elrepo] skylake and nvidia
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> 
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>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:38 AM, <_russell.poffenberger@xcerra.com_
> <mailto:russell.poffenber...@xcerra.com>> wrote:
>
> This didn't work well for me. I have a SuperMicro X11SSV-Q motherboard
> with an i7-6700 (6th gen i7) processor. When I enable this option, the
> system boots (although I can tell that it does something different,
> the standard font that the bootup messages display in is smaller, and
> I get a bunch of DRM warnings).
> However, once the Centos login screen appears, it is like the screen
> is twice as wide as it is supposed to be, but I can only see the right
> half of the screen on the monitor. The mouse will slide to the left
> off the border and take as much movement to get back on the visible
> screen. I can blindly login using the keyboard, and my desktop
> appears, but again, only apparently the right half. If I move the
> mouse, say up and down without clicking the buttons, it is like it is
> dragging a shade over the screen with the mouse. I can right click,
> then slide the mouse down and reveal the right click menu.
> Obviously it is not really useable in this state.
> Perhaps something in Xorg.conf that needs to be tweaked?
>
> ​I don't have the relevant hardware, so cannot test, but you may want
> to try the options listed here:
>
> ​_https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics#Skylake_support_
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Re: [elrepo] skylake and nvidia

[russell . poffenberger]

Hi Akemi,

Thanks for the link, but none of the info made a difference. The only 
thing I found was that trying to have the Xorg configuration, without 
setting i915.preliminary_hw_support set to 1 will cause the system to 
crash when it tries to start X.

Guess I will have to wait until there is a newer kernel.

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Phone:  +1 / 408 / 635-6049
russell.poffenber...@xcerra.com
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1355 California Circle
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From:
Akemi Yagi <amy...@gmail.com>
To:
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Date:
09/22/2016 10:47 AM
Subject:
Re: [elrepo] skylake and nvidia
Sent by:
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:38 AM, <russell.poffenber...@xcerra.com> wrote:

This didn't work well for me. I have a SuperMicro X11SSV-Q motherboard 
with an i7-6700 (6th gen i7) processor. When I enable this option, the 
system boots (although I can tell that it does something different, the 
standard font that the bootup messages display in is smaller, and I get a 
bunch of DRM warnings). 
However, once the Centos login screen appears, it is like the screen is 
twice as wide as it is supposed to be, but I can only see the right half 
of the screen on the monitor. The mouse will slide to the left off the 
border and take as much movement to get back on the visible screen. I can 
blindly login using the keyboard, and my desktop appears, but again, only 
apparently the right half. If I move the mouse, say up and down without 
clicking the buttons, it is like it is dragging a shade over the screen 
with the mouse. I can right click, then slide the mouse down and reveal 
the right click menu. 
Obviously it is not really useable in this state. 
Perhaps something in Xorg.conf that needs to be tweaked? 

​I don't have the relevant hardware, so cannot test, but you may want to 
try the options listed here:

​https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics#Skylake_support

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Re: [elrepo] skylake and nvidia

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:38 AM,  wrote:

>
> This didn't work well for me. I have a SuperMicro X11SSV-Q motherboard
> with an i7-6700 (6th gen i7) processor. When I enable this option, the
> system boots (although I can tell that it does something different, the
> standard font that the bootup messages display in is smaller, and I get a
> bunch of DRM warnings).
> However, once the Centos login screen appears, it is like the screen is
> twice as wide as it is supposed to be, but I can only see the right half of
> the screen on the monitor. The mouse will slide to the left off the border
> and take as much movement to get back on the visible screen. I can blindly
> login using the keyboard, and my desktop appears, but again, only
> apparently the right half. If I move the mouse, say up and down without
> clicking the buttons, it is like it is dragging a shade over the screen
> with the mouse. I can right click, then slide the mouse down and reveal the
> right click menu.
> Obviously it is not really useable in this state.
> Perhaps something in Xorg.conf that needs to be tweaked?
>
> ​I don't have the relevant hardware, so cannot test, but you may want to
try the options listed here:

​
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics#Skylake_support

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Re: [elrepo] skylake and nvidia

[russell . poffenberger]

This didn't work well for me. I have a SuperMicro X11SSV-Q motherboard 
with an i7-6700 (6th gen i7) processor. When I enable this option, the 
system boots (although I can tell that it does something different, the 
standard font that the bootup messages display in is smaller, and I get a 
bunch of DRM warnings).
However, once the Centos login screen appears, it is like the screen is 
twice as wide as it is supposed to be, but I can only see the right half 
of the screen on the monitor. The mouse will slide to the left off the 
border and take as much movement to get back on the visible screen. I can 
blindly login using the keyboard, and my desktop appears, but again, only 
apparently the right half. If I move the mouse, say up and down without 
clicking the buttons, it is like it is dragging a shade over the screen 
with the mouse. I can right click, then slide the mouse down and reveal 
the right click menu.
Obviously it is not really useable in this state.
Perhaps something in Xorg.conf that needs to be tweaked?

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Phone:  +1 / 408 / 635-6049
russell.poffenber...@xcerra.com
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From:
Trevor Hemsley <thems...@voiceflex.com>
To:
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Date:
09/20/2016 07:56 AM
Subject:
Re: [elrepo] skylake and nvidia
Sent by:
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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 



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Re: [elrepo] skylake and nvidia

[Farkas Levente]

On 09/20/2016 10:54 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Farkas Levente  wrote:
> 
>> the other problem that i's still not able to download the source of the
>> 7.3 beta. either i try to download the source isos or individual
>> package's src.rpm i always got an error from rh. so i can't look into
>> the spec file and start to build our own versions.
> 
> Downloading the isos did fail earlier but it seems to be working now.
> Try it before it dies again. :)

now i've got it!:-)

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Re: [elrepo] skylake and nvidia

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Farkas Levente  wrote:

> the other problem that i's still not able to download the source of the
> 7.3 beta. either i try to download the source isos or individual
> package's src.rpm i always got an error from rh. so i can't look into
> the spec file and start to build our own versions.

Downloading the isos did fail earlier but it seems to be working now.
Try it before it dies again. :)

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Re: [elrepo] skylake and nvidia

[Farkas Levente]

the question of course what does the "supported" means?

for us the supported means that the xvinfo gives us at least 16 port (or
more). unfortunately even with the latest7.3 beta it gives only 1.
what does it means?
it's working! you can start an X or gnome environment etc. but can't
really use the integrated graphics which means only a little bit better
then vesa mode.

unfortunately rh did not even comment my bz:-(
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1372383

what i collect so far?
fedora 23 and 24 fully support it out of the box.

intel linux graphics latest release 2.0.2:
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/intel-graphics-update-tool-linux-os-v2.0.2
packages compared with 7.3 beta packages:

* kernel in rhel 7.3 of course only 3.10, but fedora with 4.4 kernel
working so probably 4.4 would be enough? but intel page shows 4.6.

* mesa 11.2.2 in 7.3 ok.

* xf86-video-intel 2.99.917 in 7.3 ok. but the question the build
parameters.

* libdrm-2.4.68 in 7.3: libdrm-2.4.67, but probably easy to rebuild to
the new version.

* libva-1.7.1 require new version from based on epel.

* vaapi-intel-driver 1.7.1 require new version from based on nux
* cairo-1.15.2 ? in 7.3: cairo-1.14.2 we hope it's enough. i do not
believe we can replace such a basic library.

* Xorg Xserver 1.18.3 now here the funny part:-) in 7.3 it's 1.17.2, but
in the changelog of xf86-video-intel there is rebuild just because
reenable dri, since 7.3 is based on xorg 1.18!?? so either they plan to
rebase to 1.18 or it's an 1.18 looks like an 1.17?!

* Intel-gpu-tools - 1.15 ? use inside the xorg driver package

the other problem that i's still not able to download the source of the
7.3 beta. either i try to download the source isos or individual
package's src.rpm i always got an error from rh. so i can't look into
the spec file and start to build our own versions.




On 09/20/2016 04:56 PM, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> 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
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Re: [elrepo] skylake and nvidia

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

On 09/20/2016 04:56 PM, Trevor Hemsley wrote:

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.


Beautiful! Thanks Trevor, this works for me with the standard kernel.

bumblebee+nvidia doesn't work yet, but at least I can work with the 
regular kernel and elrepo goodies. I'll investigate bb+nvidia and may 
get back to the list if I find a solution.




|
|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



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Re: [elrepo] skylake and nvidia

[Trevor Hemsley]

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
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[elrepo] skylake and nvidia

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

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
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