Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 09:58:15 +0200 From: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KMS Question Message-ID: <CAPS9%2BSuxXBOQGydbjxFGDSUNeCGuQhN7ZvJoVOz-ztTHh-5DTQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1t7aHgV4YTAyLyFKGq9jfEohScxgftwL0p7AFyOV1fo5A@mail.gmail.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> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207020635090.59952@pukruppa.de> <CAN6yY1t7aHgV4YTAyLyFKGq9jfEohScxgftwL0p7AFyOV1fo5A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.de> > 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 I have WITH_KMS ( and WITH_NEW_XORG ) set on my laptop which uses the nvidia binary driver. Works like a charm. But I agree with proposed solution: update sources and rebuild. Have you done the xorgmerge step? Best regards Andreas
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