Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 06:39:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.de> To: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KMS Question Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207020635090.59952@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <201207021126.38116.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207020503160.63787@pukruppa.de> <201207021054.22814.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207020610120.59952@pukruppa.de> <201207021126.38116.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
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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 > | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | Wuppertal | Germany
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