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Date:      Fri, 24 Feb 2017 23:10:40 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Mathias Picker <Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: XServer 1.18 on Lenovo T520/SandyBridge: need to load i915kms manually
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1sphQCajBYboUy4Vvhzo4vYsVTL_8ctXU426OtdOkqswA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1487954673.2937.3.camel@virtual-earth.de>
References:  <1487954673.2937.3.camel@virtual-earth.de>

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Mathias Picker <
Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de> wrote:

> Thanks for the update, it's working fine on my X230t/IvyBridge using
> the modesetting driver!
>
> I had some troubles on my T520: only the vesa driver worked, so I'm was
> at a wrong resolution and without my external monitor :( :( :(
>
> After some testing I discovered that everything starts to work
> if I load i915kms before starting X. So it works for me now, too.
>

This is a known issue and was documented in UPDATING 20170211.
--
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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