Just got mine. First the good news. Freebsd 12.2 installs on it flawlessly and yields a text-mode system that is as stable as I've come to expect from Freebsd. However, I found no way of getting the Iris Xe graphics that come with the Intel chip to give me any sort of X screen. I tried drm-kmod. I tried xf86-video-intel. Heck I tried VESA. Nothing worked.
On to 13.0. First, the hilarity:
The built-in graphics still don't work, but the i915kms module at least seems to find the hardware now. I guess it's missing some firmware:
It does create a /dev/dri/card0 node, but all the console screen does is flash between black and slightly less black. I tried
I had some weird flakiness with the giant multi-function USB-C dongle I'm using to get network. I bought that thing to make my last Macbook Pro slightly less useless, so I was frankly surprised it worked at all with Freebsd. Anyone got recommendations for USB Ethernet and Wifi sticks to get? Yes, I want both.
I guess I'll try 14-CURRENT on that thing. I suppose they'll accept bug reports on that version if they are for new hardware?
On to 13.0. First, the hilarity:
The built-in graphics still don't work, but the i915kms module at least seems to find the hardware now. I guess it's missing some firmware:
Code:
drmn0: could not load firmware image 'i915/tgl_dmc_ver2_04.bin'
drmn0: Failed to load DMC firmware i915/tgl_dmc_ver2_04.bin. Disabling runtime power management.
drmn0: DMC firmware homepage: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/i915
It does create a /dev/dri/card0 node, but all the console screen does is flash between black and slightly less black. I tried
hw.vga.textmode=1
in /boot/loader.conf with no effect. This is not too surprising since support for this hardware was added in Linux 5.11, and the latest drm-kmod-devel is only up to 5.5.I had some weird flakiness with the giant multi-function USB-C dongle I'm using to get network. I bought that thing to make my last Macbook Pro slightly less useless, so I was frankly surprised it worked at all with Freebsd. Anyone got recommendations for USB Ethernet and Wifi sticks to get? Yes, I want both.
I guess I'll try 14-CURRENT on that thing. I suppose they'll accept bug reports on that version if they are for new hardware?