From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 2 04:59:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21297106564A for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 04:59:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com (mail-wi0-f172.google.com [209.85.212.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E588FC12 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 04:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhm11 with SMTP id hm11so2254710wib.13 for ; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:59:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=mnIGQnJqTOeq5eC7K5uECQ+7m9kdiiNiAv2EWEygEnU=; b=cXnq4gKYsi/9PTnww4Cb2Ax+gDHvlnjWqj04NkgYqW98dp+fSrQVC9pK8/Z2Z6io2t 5gXylJpGkguPdSxZ6ym0U2c8qD9uiK07yiWs8qrS3v4xwK/qaQlRhi62CRhvMvW5qI45 sEFQykzp9H9irjLOm3d4pp6hXrnpODSWCe70OWaBwyiZtvN0h1TYlncetwmnGg4I8WZn 0/6rGg0nGlg2F7g8LdcR8MMQieq0vhc2+7t02sz+Z+PgTQNEsaoaaGVoJVe642cOSrtb dMm5VZ4/3K0Eyb576GqdqZwHESaqXaUtXX2x6Pp1jwshy5h7sN3lc5mUxdSZlMHHHTFu vgJg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.79.166 with SMTP id k6mr13873810wix.8.1341205147529; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.155.4 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jul 2012 21:59:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201207021054.22814.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <201207021126.38116.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 21:59:07 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KMS Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:59:09 -0000 On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > 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 >> > 11 June is just about the date that the updates were all merged into 9-Stable. I suggesting updating sources to at least 15 Jun (or, better still, today) and buidl that. No additional patches are needed. DO NOT SET "WITH_KMS"! KMS is ONLY for Intel CPU/GPU processors. You can give it a try WITH_NEW_XORG, though. If you don't have KMS, you will not have i915-kms.ko, so don't worry. (Maybe someone will volunteer to write an AMD/ATi KMS driver some day, but no one has to date.) You might try an initial startx with no Xorg.conf file. It usually works. You probably won't have a need for acpi_call, either, and it is from the acpi_call port and not part of the base system. It lets you poke at ACPI paramters. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com