[OpenIndiana-discuss] How is IvyBridge support on recent IO?

[Chris]

On 2021-01-11 02:24, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
> Am 11.01.21 um 09:35 schrieb Chris:
>> Hello,
>> I recently attempted to an install of OI 20201031 on an
>> Intel i5 IvyBridge. Everything worked up until the console
>> switched to graphics/Xorg. Where the screen simply turned
>> black and disk activity stopped shoerly there after.
>> Tapping anything on the keyboard did not seem to have any
>> affect. That is; no disk activity, nor change on the
>> acreen as a result. Is IvyBridge still
>> supported/(correctly)detected?
>> 
>> Thank you for all your time, and consideration.
>> 
>> --Chris
>> 
> Hi,
> 
> from my point of view it shouldn't fail like this, albeit I haven't
> checked any Ivy Brigde generation cpu yet. I only successfully used
> Intel graphics on my e3-1245v3 (Haswell) and e3-1275v5 (Skylake,
> not really sure whether I really tested it (my memory my fail me) as I
> am using NVIDIA P6x0 cards on these machines).
> My general recommendation is to use the text install media because this
> is the best supported version (live media is still working but lacking
> some things already as nobody cares for them).
> After a successful installation from text media you can run "pkg install
> mate_install && pkg uninstall mate_install" which brings you X11 and
> Mate desktop.
> Of course you'll need to add more apps to get a better desktop experience.
> When your machine hangs on starting X11 you should try to connect via
> ssh and look for errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/adm/messages.
Heh. All my other stuff has NVIDIA/AMD. This is my only Intel rig.
Good advice! I'll spin up a text install, and see if it doesn't behave
better.

On an aside. My attempts to investigate this on my own indicates:

Intel KMS driver - OpenIndiana - OpenIndiana Wiki
(https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Intel+KMS+driver)
and
Mesa - OpenIndiana - OpenIndiana Wiki
(https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Mesa)

both return 503 (HTTP error). Are the servers down?


Thanks for taking the time to respond! :-)

--Chris
> 
> Regards
> Andreas
> 
> 
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