Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:10:23 -0700 From: Matthew Macy <mmacy@nextbsd.org> To: "Pete Wright" <pete@nomadlogic.org> Cc: "" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next Message-ID: <157496f7268.ac5eb5ca278618.8741026532558973404@nextbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <439e20fa-6385-68fb-c97e-24705ebd2f94@nomadlogic.org> References: <1569231fc12.1189a20c2251388.8699372849515846410@nextbsd.org> <20160920162456.GO8480@rancor.immure.com> <CAGhTqAXdNBTbdvSzBUFaOMY10jEMy6MehNqN%2BFfdZVpZ5Y1Rbg@mail.gmail.com> <439e20fa-6385-68fb-c97e-24705ebd2f94@nomadlogic.org>
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---- On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:19:43 -0700 Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote ---- > > > 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. No. drm-next tracks upstream, but is not guaranteed to work at any particular point in time. Intel users should be using drm-next-4.7. Pete - could you please update the wiki to that effect? > > 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. With a functional efifb I have yet to see a legitimate technical reason for loading at boot. File system operations are much slower for the loader than they are once the system has run init. > > 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. > -M
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