Re: i915drmkms and Intel Ice Lake GPU

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%welche.eu@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:01:00AM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 02:57:02PM +0100, Roddy González wrote:
> > Am I doing something wrong?  Or the GPU is just not supported?  Are there an
> > configs I can modify before building the kernel?  Something tells me that I
> > may disable (or enable) some energy/ACPI config that is not working
> > correctly.  But not sure.  I didn't really understand the error messages in
> > dmesg.
> 
> I just had an inconclusive rummage: your CPU seems to want "10th Gen"
> graphics. The boundary between old and new Intel drivers is up to 10th
> and from 11th. (11th and up is in with arc / iris). So, 10th should be
> roughly the same as 9th which the i915 driver does support.
> 
>    git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel
> 
> however has gen9, but no mention of a gen10.
> 
> $ git grep -i gen10
> $
> 
> It might be that it isn't necessary, but I would say it doesn't bode well,
> and try the modesetting driver instead...

Sorry - you are having the problem at the drmkms kernel driver level - 
I was worrying about X, but you can't get the far...

Sorry for the noise,


Patrick