Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:54:14 -0700 From: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> To: Nicolas Kovacs <info@microlinux.fr> Cc: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, x11-list freebsd <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can't configure Intel video card: hard freeze or fallback to VESA Message-ID: <CAG6CVpUCU5SCAnx4bp7v8fTuycFy1JSSJVx80FUBzK-i26jtLw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e3307c60-a7f7-1ac9-d4b0-09c1405fe572@microlinux.fr> References: <ad4fca92-59d7-2d25-0afb-06c929434d2c@microlinux.fr> <20170323144435.GB87700@rancor.immure.com> <CAG6CVpUjHuC9wBxWOV_2=YwPXwchs0K91yzJgdcgoYCWBmbL4Q@mail.gmail.com> <e3307c60-a7f7-1ac9-d4b0-09c1405fe572@microlinux.fr>
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Nicolas Kovacs <info@microlinux.fr> wrote: > Le 23/03/2017 =C3=A0 16:07, Conrad Meyer a =C3=A9crit : >> Hi Nicolas, >> >> Do you have the i915kms kernel module loaded before starting X? If >> not, try loading that first. Second, can you try the "modesetting" >> Xorg video driver in place of "intel"? > > Hi, > > Still no luck. Here's what I did. > > Install a vanilla FreeBSD 10.3 amd64 system. The only non-standard thing > I chose during install was adding documentation and kernel source. > > # pkg install xorg > > Then I edited /boot/loader.conf (which is empty in the default > configuration) and added these two lines: > > kern.vty=3Dvt > i915kms_load=3D"YES" > > I rebooted, and after the first few boot messages, the monitor went > black and the system froze. I have to hard-reset it. I don't even know > how to get it back short of reinstalling from scratch. > > Any suggestions? Hi, i915kms driver had issues in the past with loader-time loading. Can you instead add it to rc.conf's kld_list? If that has the same problem, maybe try FreeBSD 11 instead of 10.x? If TrueOS works, that code will eventually end up in FreeBSD. But it's been a slow process for sure. Best, Conrad
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