Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 04:56:31 +0000 (UTC) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel KMS success Message-ID: <931962.52868.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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from Niclas Zeising:
> On 07/03/13 21:28, David Demelier wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've successfully get my intel card working :-). Thank for all your
> > work on this. However I only have two questions:
> > 1. I needed to build a GENERIC kernel, if not Xorg says "No devices
> > found" and complains about no files under /dev/dri*. I have built in
> > the device drm and device i915drm though. Do these drivers *must* be
> > compiled as modules?
> The i915kms kernel module should be loaded automatically when you start
> X. There is no need to compile it into the kernel, and if you do so
> then the console won't work.
> > 2. The tty is broken after the X starts, I read in the FAQ that it's
> > due to the i915drm load, will it be possible to get this of this bug
> > soon?
> This is a known issue, and work is underway to fix it. I have no idea
> when that work is completed.
> Regards!
--
> Niclas Zeising
I have in my kernel config,
device drm # DRM core module required by DRM drivers
device i915drm # Intel i830 through i915
but no kms.
Would that "device i915drm" be what screwed me when I tried to run the new Xorg but the computer immediately froze?
I would try first with FreeBSD-HEAD before trying with STABLE, but still will want a vesa version of xorg.conf to fall back on, in addition to Intel version.
Is there any way to compile i915kms into the kernel, even if inadvisable? I searched for "KMS" and "kms" in the NOTES files, and not found.
Tom
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