[gentoo-user] Video card setting on XPS8940?

[gentoo-user] Video card setting on XPS8940?

[Walter Dnes]

  I'm working on setting up a new Dell XPS 8940.  What do I set the
video options to in the kernel and in "VIDEO_CARDS" in make.conf?
Here's the output from "lspci -v".

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 9bc8 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        DeviceName: Onboard - Video
        Subsystem: Dell Device 09c5
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 255
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
        Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [40] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>
        Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [ac] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [100] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
        Capabilities: [200] Address Translation Service (ATS)
        Capabilities: [300] Page Request Interface (PRI)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Video card setting on XPS8940?

[thelma]

On 12/20/2020 11:41 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I'm working on setting up a new Dell XPS 8940.  What do I set the
> video options to in the kernel and in "VIDEO_CARDS" in make.conf?
> Here's the output from "lspci -v".
> 
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 9bc8 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>         DeviceName: Onboard - Video
>         Subsystem: Dell Device 09c5
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 255
>         Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>         I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
>         Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>
>         Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
>         Capabilities: [ac] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
>         Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
>         Capabilities: [100] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
>         Capabilities: [200] Address Translation Service (ATS)
>         Capabilities: [300] Page Request Interface (PRI)

I think you have to enable: CONFIG_DRM_I915 in kernel .config

VIDEO_CARDS="intel i915"

See:
https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/DRM_I915.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card setting on XPS8940?

[J. Roeleveld]

On 21 December 2020 07:41:08 CET, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>  I'm working on setting up a new Dell XPS 8940.  What do I set the
>video options to in the kernel and in "VIDEO_CARDS" in make.conf?
>Here's the output from "lspci -v".
>
>00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 9bc8 (rev
>03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>        DeviceName: Onboard - Video
>        Subsystem: Dell Device 09c5
>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 255
>        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>        Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>        I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
>        Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
>        Capabilities: [40] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>
>    Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
>        Capabilities: [ac] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
>        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
>        Capabilities: [100] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
>        Capabilities: [200] Address Translation Service (ATS)
>        Capabilities: [300] Page Request Interface (PRI)

Add all the options starting with "i". (Intel and the ones with numbers)

Also add those to the kernel.

More specific, check what the CPU needs via google and co.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Video card setting on XPS8940?

[thelma]

On 12/20/2020 11:51 PM, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 12/20/2020 11:41 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>   I'm working on setting up a new Dell XPS 8940.  What do I set the
>> video options to in the kernel and in "VIDEO_CARDS" in make.conf?
>> Here's the output from "lspci -v".
>>
>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 9bc8 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>>         DeviceName: Onboard - Video
>>         Subsystem: Dell Device 09c5
>>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 255
>>         Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>>         Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>>         I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
>>         Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
>>         Capabilities: [40] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>
>>         Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
>>         Capabilities: [ac] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
>>         Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
>>         Capabilities: [100] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
>>         Capabilities: [200] Address Translation Service (ATS)
>>         Capabilities: [300] Page Request Interface (PRI)
> 
> I think you have to enable: CONFIG_DRM_I915 in kernel .config
> 
> VIDEO_CARDS="intel i915"
> 
> See:
> https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/DRM_I915.html

Or:
VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965"