Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:13:02 -0500 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KMS Question Message-ID: <4FF1904E.7040604@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPS9%2BSuxXBOQGydbjxFGDSUNeCGuQhN7ZvJoVOz-ztTHh-5DTQ@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> <CAPS9%2BSuxXBOQGydbjxFGDSUNeCGuQhN7ZvJoVOz-ztTHh-5DTQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 07/02/12 02:58, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I also have WITH_KMS and WITH_NEW_XORG set on my HP G7 which has an AMD Vision A4 chipset and is running under the X11 vesa driver. I built it up from source after cleaning off the machine. Works fine. -- John M. Cooper -- -- John M. Cooper
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