From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Thu Mar 23 16:54:24 2017 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 23B54D1ABBD for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:54:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cse.cem@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wr0-f181.google.com (mail-wr0-f181.google.com [209.85.128.181]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AFBFA1AA5 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:54:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cse.cem@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wr0-f181.google.com with SMTP id y90so33948677wrb.0 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:54:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=we9LAIkt6XwZBDSmCx8844tYF1rLkarm4TF1R3a202M=; b=QQjFlcu2wgZS//I0pQFuHnVCSUpUlAMw0Ir9kccJynwufkCUgvMHOvm05Mc0Wh/m1F Vj0l0Sc7mq8oVgvsf1xj/+Nt0PPTANTwnyau97jivkQL08Aa1qnbMqofpUbGzQNIEUBc nmfsQFpAcgEHoupVjPcGM1e0q6Y4vZF5TH3biAs6SnQJl2CAOHLn+qVaiTgUpzv/2KEe iWffq1rwRXeOaOmL+hYo3Tnyfr3AvHOfRvfzl5U1j7nBi+PDOiKHhvEHGbZgSyyJHR2B tkFdOvuy9ZYn1wazCXU2UCLm8nhLT122rCZjFq27ZOEXMDAN7RpAz6SJvdtlGcYWOEID KOeQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AFeK/H1yaSASeSfwY4DHT6hVQwk8WahrYSqj53nkzl7zd3NJ5Dlw+W/6eeE7I3u4uDYltg== X-Received: by 10.223.170.73 with SMTP id q9mr3468900wrd.13.1490288055508; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:54:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wm0-f48.google.com (mail-wm0-f48.google.com. [74.125.82.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l41sm6514033wre.23.2017.03.23.09.54.15 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:54:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f48.google.com with SMTP id w204so3248572wmd.1 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:54:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.28.218.197 with SMTP id r188mr3843506wmg.0.1490288055197; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:54:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: cem@freebsd.org Received: by 10.80.169.4 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:54:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20170323144435.GB87700@rancor.immure.com> From: Conrad Meyer Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:54:14 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: Can't configure Intel video card: hard freeze or fallback to VESA To: Nicolas Kovacs Cc: Bob Willcox , x11-list freebsd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:54:24 -0000 On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Nicolas Kovacs 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