Re: Starting Wayland

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:54:50 +0200, Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
stated:
> "Gerard E. Seibert" <jerry@seibercom.net> writes:
> 
> > I used 'cpu-x' to gather some information on my system.
> >
> > 'cpu-x' identified my CPU as:
> >
> > Code Name:	Alder Lake-S (Core i7)
> > Model:		AlderLake-S GT1 graphics
> > Specification:	12th Gen Intel(R) Core i7-12700
> >
> > Graphics:
> >
> > AlderLake-S GT1
> >
> > So it seems that my CPU/Graphiscs may not even be supported on
> > FreeBSD 14.  
> 
> AlderLake-S is unstable with Linux < 5.16 or in drm-515-kmod.
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f5392e5f8ef3
> https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/commit/55ede01c995e
> 
> Try drm-61-kmod instead (with gpu-firmware-intel-kmod-alderlake >=
> 20230625). Reported success in
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=270888#c8 Requires
> -CURRENT or https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.1R/schedule/
> 
> Due to backward compatibility it's possible to run -CURRENT kernel
> with older -RELEASE userland (world + packages). For example,
> poudriere (as used by the package cluster) relies on this to build
> binary packages for older FreeBSD versions on the same machine.

I was told this problem would be corrected in the 14.1 release. It is
not critical that I get it working right now. I have a Windows machine
that is working just fine with Alder Lake-S. I'll just wait for the new
release and try again.

-- 
Jerry