From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Tue Sep 20 19:19:44 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45815BE2824 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:19:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (unknown [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a098::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E9E3785 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:19:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from la-dgt-31327.usa.tribune.com (nat-192-187-90-113.nat.tribpub.com [192.187.90.113]) by vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id e0ffaa3f TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: <1569231fc12.1189a20c2251388.8699372849515846410@nextbsd.org> <20160920162456.GO8480@rancor.immure.com> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <439e20fa-6385-68fb-c97e-24705ebd2f94@nomadlogic.org> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:19:43 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:19:44 -0000 On 9/20/16 12:07 PM, Doug Kirk wrote: > Hi Bob, > > To start, you'll want to build and install the kernel from the "drm-next" > branch at https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics . > Instructions in the FreeBSD handbook for building/installing. > > Then, the instructions at ( > https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/wiki#installing-required-userland-components) > will tell you how to get the updated X server installed. > > One thing to note that's not really stated anywhere is that you need to > load the i915kms driver in rc.conf, not from the boot loader, as it's not > ready for boot-time loading yet (last I worked with it, last month). > Boot-time loading results in a panic. > oh interesting i'll take a look at that tonight. on my end i've been letting Xorg load the i915kms module: i.e. not loading it via rc.conf. cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org nomadlogicLA