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Date:      Sun, 1 Jul 2012 19:03:41 +0300
From:      Nikolay Tychina <niktychina@gmail.com>
To:        Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDE 4 hangs at splash screen when using KMS enabled 10-CURRENT
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2012/7/1 Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday, July 01, 2012 12:24:57 AM Nikolay Tychina wrote:
>> >> > I freshly built x11/xorg and x11/kde4 on FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and was
>> >> > ready to use it with new Intel driver, but
>> >> > after I kldloaded i915kms.ko and started X, KDE just hung up at its
>> >> > splash screen after displaying its logo (last icon). Then screen got
>> >> > blank with only a movable mouse cursor on it.
>> >> > Any ideas?
>> >>
>> >> Do other window managers work? Is anything useful reported on the
>> >> console (in case you use startx and log the output of startkde4
>> >> somewhere)?
>> >
>> > KDE started one time for me without problems.
>> >
>> > Did you upgrade to the latest 10 sources?
>> >
>> > As I do not use KDE, I did not test it any further.
>> >
>> > One side note, X does not start always successfully with Intel KMS. My X220 freezes then but I cannot check with a second machine then.
>> >
>> > I would suggest the same as Nikolay that you start testing with a very simple window manager like blackbox or whatever you like.
>
> I just started KDE for you and it worked. Here are the details:
>
> KDE 4.8.3
>
> Starting X is done by a script:
>
> sudo kldload i915kms
> sudo kldload acpi_call
> sudo chmod 666 /dev/acpi
> startx
>
> .xinitrc looks like this (after deleting the comments):
>
> xset m 10 3
> xmodmap .xmodmaprc
> exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
>
> I only started konqueror to open FreeBSD.org. It worked as expected.
>
> Erich

Hi Erich!

Thank you for taking the time for this non-momentary action. Are you
running CURRENT?
And did you start KDE with no previous configuration available?
Is Composite enabled in your xorg.conf?



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