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Subject: Re: KMS Question
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On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Monday, July 02, 2012 11:13:56 AM Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday, July 02, 2012 10:16:43 AM Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>>>>
>>>> please correct me, if I misunderstood something about KMS .
>>>>
>>>> I built xorg-7.7 on FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 11 23:48:45
>>>> CEST 2 amd64 .
>>>>
>>>> When I do a plain
>>>>  	# startx
>>>> (no xorg.conf set) I receive
>>>>
>>> I do this:
>>>
>>> sudo kldload i915kms
>>> sudo kldload acpi_call
>>> sudo chmod 666 /dev/acpi
>>> startx
>> Actually this is my question: I cannot kldload these two modules
>> because I don't have them. I believed I wouldn't need them since
>> I don't have any Intel-chipset. Do I need them anyway?
>
> ok, then we need more information. What kind of machine do you 
> have? CPU and GPU?
I have got an amd64 CPU and some ATI Radeon graphics chip. As 
far as I have heard the latter isn't well supported, but I don't 
mind for now: It should at least be able to run the default vesa 
driver.

>
> To my knowledge, KMS needs an Intel i3, i5 or i7 to work. You 
> cannot use KMS with all other CPUs.
>
> You also do not need it if you have another GPU you want to use 
> it in the system.
So I have to patch my base system anyway?
Where can I get the latest patches?

Peter.
> Erich
>


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