Video acceleration?

[Yuri Pankov]

Steven Friedrich wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 01:46:36 EST Steven Friedrich wrote:
>> On Friday, 9 November 2018 11:33:40 EST Steven Friedrich wrote:
>>> I am running 11.2-RELEASE on an HP Slimline with an i7, which has UHD 630
>>> graphics (Kaby Lake).
>>>
>>> I load in /etc/rc.conf:
>>> kld_list="/boot/modules/i915_kbl_dmc_ver1_04_bin.ko /boot/modules/
>>> i915_kbl_guc_ver9_14_bin.ko /boot/modules/i915_kbl_huc_ver02_00_bin.ko"
>>>
>>> glxinfo reports:
>>> name of display: :0
>>> display: :0  screen: 0
>>> direct rendering: Yes
>>> server glx vendor string: SGI
>>> server glx version string: 1.4
>>>
>>> client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
>>> client glx version string: 1.4
>>>
>>> GLX version: 1.4
>>>
>>> Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
>>>     Vendor: VMware, Inc. (0xffffffff)
>>>     Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0, 256 bits) (0xffffffff)
>>>     Version: 18.1.9
>>>     Accelerated: no
>>>     Video memory: 16384MB
>>>     Unified memory: no
>>>     Preferred profile: core (0x1)
>>>     Max core profile version: 3.3
>>>     Max compat profile version: 3.1
>>>     Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
>>>     Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
>>>
>>> Why don't I have Accelerated: Yes  ???
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>>
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>> When I try to use the modesetting driver, X looks for /dev/dri/card0 which
>> doesn't exist.  How do I make it exist?  I thought the i915kms driver would
>> create it.
>>
>>
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> I'm confident that I have the correct i915kms and drm modules loaded
> kldstat -vn i915kms
> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>  3    1 0xffffffff82c0d000 120c58   i915kms.ko (/boot/modules/i915kms.ko)
>         Contains modules:
>                 Id Name
> root at FreeBSD:/home/steven # kldstat -vn drm
> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>  4    1 0xffffffff82d2e000 74b70    drm.ko (/boot/modules/drm.ko)
>         Contains modules:
>                 Id Name
>                 505 drmn
> 
> I also installed port gpu-firmware-kmod and I found the three files I need to 
> load, i.e., 
> /boot/modules/i915_kbl_dmc_ver1_01_bin.ko*  or
> /boot/modules/i915_kbl_dmc_ver1_04_bin.ko* and
> /boot/modules/i915_kbl_guc_ver9_14_bin.ko* and
> /boot/modules/i915_kbl_huc_ver02_00_bin.ko*
> but I don't know hw to use them.
> 
> Should they be loaded by rc.conf before the i915kms.ko or after?
> Or do I have to process them some other way?

You need to load only the i915kms module, it will pull in all
dependencies and binary blobs on its own.  So it should be just the
following instead of the line you had in the original message:

kld_list="/boot/modules/i915kms.ko"

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