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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
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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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