Sul meriggio di 020821 16:21,
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nobody@net.bsd> enarrava tali parole:
Ultimately the NetBSD folks need to freshen their DRM stuff so DRI can
be enabled. Chatting with some NetBSD developers suggests this may not
be a high priority so until then work-arounds as described are the only
option.
As far as I can tell the graphics stack update is on on the tasklist for
-10 RELEASE, listed among "Ongoing projects and unmerged branches"; see:
https://wiki.netbsd.org/releng/netbsd-10/
Nia Alarie recently told on UnitedBSD that Riastradh has been syncing
NetBSD's graphics drivers with the DRM/KMS stack in Linux 5.6. This will
bring support for a large amount of newer hardware, as well as support
for GLAMOR, a new acceleration mode in the X Window System. The newer
shims for Linux kernel interfaces should also make future GPU driver
updates much easier, resulting in less of a lag before newer GPUs are
supported in NetBSD.
The -9.* stack is indeed much older if compared to that one, being still
stuck at 4.11, making it tediosuly hard to run NetBSD on anything above Broadwell. Hopefully, it will make it into -10.*
If you're interested in testing the new code (still pretty much
experimental), clone the repository from Riastradh's GitHub and build a
kernel (remember to back up the known-working one):
git clone
https://github.com/riastradh/netbsd-src
cd netbsd-src
git checkout reredrm56
(follow the standard instructions for building a kernel)
Please report any panics to the GitHub repository.
With Intel GPUs, the modesetting Xorg display driver must be used
currently, so you'll need to explicitly set it inside inside
/etc/X11/xorg.conf or a partial /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-intel.conf configuration file:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "modesetting"
EndSection
Personally, I'm looking forward to testing this on a Nvidia GTX 1060,
which my workstation is equipped with; this had been substantially holding
me back from installing NetBSD on it, as the nouveau(4) implementation
from Linux 4.11, dated early 2017, would support up to GTX 9xx only.
If you happen to give this a try, any feedback is welcome. As a desktop
user, I'm as much interested as you.
Regards
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