On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 10:42:29PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
Hello friends...
I have a system with ASROCK B85M Pro4 Board and Intel Core i5-4590S
processor which has Intel HD 4600 integrated graphics. I thought I would try
booting NetBSD/amd64 7.0 on it, since I read on the web that NetBSD plans to
support Intel integrated graphics up to Haswell in NetBSD 7.0.
It crashed using the GENERIC kernel a few seconds after the bootloader
loaded the kernel. On the console screen I could see that the i915drmkms
driver crashed the system and the screen immediately went blank at that
time.
To get this system to boot I built a GENERIC kernel without the i915drmkms
option, and used it to install and run on the system, and when running
startx the system crashes immediately with the screen going blank. I thought
maybe it would at least run X11 with the generic VESA driver. But it totally
crashed the system. Obviously the support for Intel integrated graphics on
the Haswell microarchitcture is hit and miss and NetBSD 7.0 does not support
all configurations.
I also tried the legacy i915drm driver without kms which by default is
disabled in the GENERIC kernel config, but that kernel config would not
build without compilation errors.
Any ideas of what to try? NetBSD/i386 7.0? or NetBSD current? Tweak some
BIOS settings such as amount of shared videoram (mine was set to 256 MB)?
Thanks
Chuck
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Try -current, at least.
You can get an image from nyftp.netbsd.org, no need to build your own.
Feel free to file a bug report, especially if -current fails too:
http://netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd