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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>
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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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