Uber n00b seeks advice on Intel HD 4600

cpcnw

Hi Teams

First install of NetBSD on i5 4570T / Intel D 4600 which went fine until I tried to startx - which resulted in a bit of a trippy experience - like fractals 🙂

Seen some posts about Intel gfx but these are from 21 / 22

Any tips on the above to get xorg working right with this chipset?

Jay

cpcnw try Option "AccelMethod" "UXA"
In xorg config

Also worth reading : https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/439-netbsd-performance-and-power-management-tweaks

kc9udx

I don't know if this is helpful to you but usually I use VESA until I can get other drivers working. That is, if the chipset will even do that.

cpcnw

To be honest I was a little surprised because its been so long since ever messed with an xorg.conf or had any trouble launching X on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD etc

I guess it would be back to editing a conf file to use VESA?

kc9udx

cpcnw well yes but I only do that temporarily so I can use it until I figure out the driver issue. Frankly it's been so long since I've done that, not only don't I recall how to do it, but I'm not even sure that modern hardware will do it.

You could try disabling the kernel driver. That alone might work.

Jay

Also are you running NetBSD 10.0 RC4 ?

cpcnw

Jay 9.3 - didn't spot 10.00 will dl that and test

cpcnw

10.00RC4 installed and xorg working nicely although then installer and the console are now using much lower res than with 9.3? Is it a frame buffer thing or a console font type thing?

cpcnw see, https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/1164-tty-console-with-low-resolution-after-upgrade