[mpasternacki]

I’m author of that gist (just noticed I have some comments there I need to reply to), still running the setup, now with FreeBSD 12-CURRENT. Tl;dr it generally works, still no wi-fi support. X works fine (running with drm-next-4.7 patches to get external thunderbolt display to work; vanilla kernel works fine with built-in and DVI display, gets confused by Thunderbolt display only). Gave up on pkg because I want to control my build flags, I’m using portmaster now and thinking about setting up poudriere on a bigger server. Feel free to ask if you have any particular questions.

[synthmeat]

Give https://github.com/jrmarino/synth a whirl.

[mpasternacki]

Looks nice, thanks!

[gkop]

So to be clear, no Thunderbolt display working yet?

[mpasternacki]

Not in HEAD, but https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/tree... is stable in my experience

[cyberpunk]

I'm running two external screens (one thunderbolt, one via the hdmi port) on unpatched 10.3 without any issue on my mbp... I can use the laptop display at the same time also (usually don't -- but I have to close the lid before I start X otherwise it'll stay on) ....?

Is it just your model? It;s behind my desk but it's some cheapo thunderbolt->hdmi dongle made by "neeto" apparently, works well enough..

[ 131.865] (--) NVIDIA(0): BenQ GL2450H (DFP-2): connected

[ 131.865] (--) NVIDIA(0): BenQ GL2450H (DFP-2): Internal TMDS

[ 131.865] (--) NVIDIA(0): BenQ GL2450H (DFP-2): 340.0 MHz maximum pixel clock

[ 131.802] (--) NVIDIA(0): BenQ GL2450H (DFP-0): connected

[ 131.802] (--) NVIDIA(0): BenQ GL2450H (DFP-0): Internal TMDS

[ 131.802] (--) NVIDIA(0): BenQ GL2450H (DFP-0): 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock

[ 131.865] (--) NVIDIA(0): Apple Color LCD (DFP-3): connected

[ 131.865] (--) NVIDIA(0): Apple Color LCD (DFP-3): Internal DisplayPort

[ 131.865] (--) NVIDIA(0): Apple Color LCD (DFP-3): 480.0 MHz maximum pixel clock

[mpasternacki]

I think 10.3 has an older version of i915, this has worked on vanilla, but 11 has already Linux 3.7 or 3.8 DRM imported which breaks with thunderbolt display, and it was fixed in drm-next-4.7 patch (which is going to land on HEAD someday, but it might not be backported to 11).