From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 2 12:15:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5E81065670 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 12:15:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john_m_cooper@yahoo.com) Received: from nm30.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (nm30.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.94.237.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 248CD8FC0A for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 12:15:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.94.237.196] by nm30.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jul 2012 12:13:01 -0000 Received: from [98.139.221.61] by tm7.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jul 2012 12:13:01 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp102.biz.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jul 2012 12:13:01 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1341231181; bh=0EMaM9xRWVRDw0Eh9s4sy2CwSwUUK7Ai+7lofUTzhqQ=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=fMpLr/7ZLdeaDmWnWg5K4uk0N9+TnmtgrWhQRNOMYUjxPc2jyMm/FcZS4Rd2+QxHaDWfWogQ7Z/xeY0G9ZoFqIocAiSiJQ6mBjTq3RUaW3IEFsl5OX6qTS9KYNn2NgWx6wXj0Xgu91O5ewGUxZmn9x5l0GZ2nVyHDHwHjh7p4No= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 444854.48796.bm@smtp102.biz.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: bwnBGGQVM1mSf56NJhZTLHEbWiLGJGSLY1YEw1Z40P3r5x5 4my93WTkhxyaO27RNFPSInHLQjuHn0WWn0adTk_F9MLOqkqN3JOimuTSbvku FX7xbdYbvGh4pNGnYWN9B5Bld49Q.UPwTh1Lx_eg0kMwIcCd_9H5yvyyTZZ4 .SZr5JvnM.Cu1k8CFLkHdEY_6mC8Nh5_sGTYdpTembOtSPhHmvdflIc05iYo oAV95DnNHf_T.PC7Crhxn1dwwxY1yBFI8yDdj.vO.9fTTohVp.6e0kBCsMyx lLsITm.7GX2ECJ5S7EUJrB5GcTYFWNH0jZDimLipNco7C.TWzGY58v4N3Tts LfAXCjGnVvm7.eIAvE8ugkF5j7Rq4RsAHaxu6nuyWB9tqQFDNTn_84f.pOBx WJbs6AqNSOxEna29yDIVB3Z3zXjycwlrZ1Dc9HGSQbSx2jIbs6d3KXQGAWF8 3mFLTcrsCuuerpm0wWQc- X-Yahoo-SMTP: VcsS1ceswBAiCdFGlCDyQjSL5IpjXQVTjtG0dfoKj_spUOjjgZeO Received: from g7-HP.borgsdemons.com (john_m_cooper@72.135.31.137 with plain) by smtp102.biz.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 02 Jul 2012 05:13:01 -0700 PDT Message-ID: <4FF1904E.7040604@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:13:02 -0500 From: John Merryweather Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120625 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: <201207021054.22814.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <201207021126.38116.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: KMS Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: j.m.cooper@borgsdemons.com 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 12:15:25 -0000 On 07/02/12 02:58, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> 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 > > > 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