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Wallsandfences
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:36 am Post subject: intel (skylake) graphic and gnome hassels

Hi,
first, I'm not sure whether my post belongs here or to 'installing'. Feel free to move it, moderators.

I have a skylake based intel nuc box, and I still experiencing un-smooth, 'micro-stuttering' window frames when moving around in gnome, it just doesn't feel 'right'.
My complaint is not about speed, everything runs bleeding fast.

Code:

Ganymed rudi # lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 0a)

Code:

rudi@Ganymed ~ $ dmesg | grep drm
[ 0.494622] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 0.494858] [drm] Found 64MB of eDRAM
[ 0.495255] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 4096M
[ 0.495282] [drm] VT-d active for gfx access
[ 0.495305] fb: switching to inteldrmfb from EFI VGA
[ 0.495573] [drm] Replacing VGA console driver
[ 0.501236] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[ 0.501243] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 0.510134] [drm] Disabling framebuffer compression (FBC) to prevent screen flicker with VT-d enabled
[ 0.783481] [drm] failed to retrieve link info, disabling eDP
[ 0.786795] [drm] GuC firmware load skipped
[ 0.915709] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20160711 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 1.036224] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 1.237920] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
[ 2.729353] [drm] RC6 on

Code:

rudi@Ganymed ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.3.0 (python 2.7.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r4, 4.8.1-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-4.8.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-6260U_CPU_@_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem: 16386776 total, 14078552 free
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 06:44:58 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p48
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1
app-shells/bash: 4.3_p48::gentoo
dev-lang/perl: 5.22.2::gentoo
dev-lang/python: 2.7.10-r1::gentoo, 3.4.3-r1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake: 3.5.2-r1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc: 0.21.7::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo
sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6::gentoo
sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc: 2.22-r4::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
location: /usr/portage
sync-type: git
sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo
priority: -1000

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=""
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli colord cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dri3 dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glamor gnome gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gpm gstreamer gtk iconv introspection ipv6 jpeg lcms ldap libnotify libsecret mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib nautilus ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pulseaudio qt3support readline sdl seccomp session sna spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg systemd tcpd tiff tracker truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" L10N="de" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21" SANE_BACKENDS="hp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

Code:

Ganymed / # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/modesetting.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "modesetting"
Driver "modesetting"
EndSection

Kernel:
Device Drivers > Generic Driver Options

Code:

│i915/skl_dmc_ver1.bin i915/skl_guc_ver1.bin i915/skl_guc_ver4.bin i915/skl_guc_ver6.bin

Device Drivers > Graphics support

Code:

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) ---> │ │
│ │ -*- VGA Arbitration │ │
│ │ (16) Maximum number of GPUs │ │
│ │ [ ] Laptop Hybrid Graphics - GPU switching support │ │
│ │ <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) ---> │ │
│ │ [ ] Allow to specify an EDID data set instead of probing for it │ │
│ │ I2C encoder or helper chips ---> │ │
│ │ < > 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ │ │
│ │ < > ATI Rage 128 │ │
│ │ < > ATI Radeon │ │
│ │ < > AMD GPU │ │
│ │ ACP (Audio CoProcessor) Configuration ---- │ │
│ │ < > Nouveau (NVIDIA) cards │ │
│ │ < > Intel I810 │ │
│ │ <*> Intel 8xx/9xx/G3x/G4x/HD Graphics │ │
│ │ [*] Enable preliminary support for prerelease Intel hardware by default │ │
│ │ [*] Always enable userptr support │ │
│ │ [ ] Enable Intel GVT-g graphics virtualization host support │ │
│ │ < > Matrox g200/g400 │ │
│ │ < > SiS video cards │ │
│ │ < > Via unichrome video cards │ │
│ │ < > Savage video cards │ │
│ │ < > Virtual GEM provider │ │
│ │ < > DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU │ │
│ │ <M> Intel GMA5/600 KMS Framebuffer │ │
│ │ [*] Intel GMA600 support (Experimental) │ │
│ │ [*] Intel GMA3600/3650 support (Experimental) │ │
│ │ < > DisplayLink │ │
│ │ < > AST server chips │ │
│ │ < > Kernel modesetting driver for MGA G200 server engines │ │
│ │ < > Cirrus driver for QEMU emulated device │ │
│ │ < > QXL virtual GPU │ │
│ │ < > DRM Support for bochs dispi vga interface (qemu stdvga) │ │
│ │ Display Panels ---- │ │
│ │ Display Interface Bridges ---> │ │
│ │ Frame buffer Devices ---> │ │
│ │ -*- Backlight & LCD device support ---> │ │
│ │ Console display driver support ---> │ │
│ │ [*] Bootup logo --->

Is there anything I can do about it?

Rüdiger

fedeliallalinea
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:47 am Post subject:

Try to add this in xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "Extensions"
Option "XVideo" "Disable"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "TearFree" "true"
Option "DRI" "true"
EndSection

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Wallsandfences
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:55 am Post subject:

fedeliallalinea wrote:

Try to add this in xorg.conf:

Code:

Hm, subjectivly it doesn't do anything...

Xorg.0.log: https://gist.github.com/677043a5d1279083e6d3c35f35bf87e2

Wallsandfences
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 8:15 am Post subject:

It get's worse: with kernel 4.8.5-gentoo I get:

Code:

Direct firmware load for i915/skl_dmc_ver1_26.bin failed with error -2

What's going on, intel?

Rüdiger

marax_faraii
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 8:35 am Post subject:

@Wallsandfences

There's a new entry in Gentoo Intel wiki for that issue

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel

Code:

If you are using Kabylake, Skylake or Broxton Intel Graphics, install sys-kernel/linux-firmware.

root #emerge --ask sys-kernel/linux-firmware
Otherwise you might see errors such as

kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: Direct firmware load for i915/skl_dmc_ver1.bin failed with error -2
kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: Failed to load DMC firmware [https://01.org/linuxgraphics/intel-linux-graphics-firmwares], disabling runtime power management.
in dmesg. Include the files required for your GPU in the kernel, in this case

Device Drivers --->
Generic Driver Options --->
-*- Userspace firmware loading support
[*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary
(i915/skl_dmc_ver1.bin)
(/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory

Wallsandfences
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 8:57 am Post subject:

This is what I already have:

Code:

│ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ [*] Support for uevent helper │ │
│ │ () path to uevent helper │ │
│ │ -*- Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev │ │
│ │ [*] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the ro│ │
│ │ [*] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external fir│ │
│ │ [*] Prevent firmware from being built │ │
│ │ -*- Userspace firmware loading support │ │
│ │ [*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary │ │
│ │ (i915/skl_dmc_ver1.bin i915/skl_guc_ver6.bin) External firmware b│ │
│ │ (/lib/firmware/) Firmware blobs root directory │ │
│ └────v(+)───────────────────────────────────────────────────

Wallsandfences
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 11:16 am Post subject:

I saw that I had an additional '/' after 'firmware' I changed that, but to no avail. Walls

marax_faraii
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:24 am Post subject:

Code:

Your kernel
[*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary │ │
│ │ (i915/skl_dmc_ver1.bin i915/skl_guc_ver6.bin) External firmware

Code:

Your dmesg
Direct firmware load for i915/skl_dmc_ver1_26.bin failed with error -2

In you dmesg it says i915/skl_dmc_ver1_26.bin and in your kernel you have i915/skl_dmc_ver1.bin i915/skl_guc_ver6.bin

Notice the ver1_26 from dmesg and compare to your kernel.

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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 7:05 am Post subject:

Hi,
it is softlinked:

Code:

/lib/firmware/i915

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8928 13. Jun 09:29 skl_dmc_ver1_26.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 13. Jun 09:30 skl_dmc_ver1.bin -> skl_dmc_ver1_26.bin

and the blob is created according to 'make'-output

marax_faraii
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 7:20 am Post subject:

I had the same issue you had and I solved it by doing that when I built the driver into the kernel. Perhaps it doesn't accept it when it's softlinked.

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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 11:31 am Post subject:

Hi, the dmc-part works now thanks to marax_faraii!

Code:

0.511310] [drm] Finished loading i915/skl_dmc_ver1_26.bin (v1.26)
[ 0.511728] [drm] Disabling framebuffer compression (FBC) to prevent screen flicker with VT-d enabled
[ 0.511760] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem
[ 0.786754] [drm] failed to retrieve link info, disabling eDP
[ 0.789924] [drm] GuC firmware load skipped
[ 0.815347] random: fast init done
[ 0.822177] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 0.822860] acpi device:0f: registered as cooling_device9
[ 0.822957] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input3
[ 0.822999] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20160711 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

The guc-part still doesn't work, anyone knows why?

Code:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 0a)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics
Kernel driver in use: i915

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