Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:19:07 +0000 From: Roger Marsh <roger.marsh@btinternet.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get session by Ctrl-Alt-F<n> from Xfce, fvwm, fvwm3, (etc?). Message-ID: <20220725161907.5811030f@opendev.home> In-Reply-To: <87834428-7265-3512-0dae-c49109f938b1@freebsd.org> References: <20220719125212.4f2cb0d9@opendev.home> <87834428-7265-3512-0dae-c49109f938b1@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:58:02 +0100 Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 19/07/2022 13:52, Roger Marsh wrote: > > … Dell D630 … > > Can you describe the graphics hardware? > > For the graphics hardware, what software and firmware is installed? > > Which version of FreeBSD, exactly? > > Packages from latest or quarterly? ... pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xefe8-0xefef mem 0xfea00000-0xfeafffff,0xe0000000-0xefffffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: <Intel GM965 SVGA controller> on vgapci0 WARNING: Device "agp" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 14.0. agp0: aperture size is 256M, detected 7676k stolen memory vgapci0: Boot video device vgapci1: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xfeb00000-0xfebfffff at device 2.1 on pci0 ... Search on "freebsd graphics drivers intel gm965" led to forums.freebsd.org thread which mentioned drm-kmod. I instantly remembered doing something with this years and years ago. Installing drm-kmod and adding kld_list="i915kms" to rc.conf as hinted in the install message fixed the problem. Apologies for forgetting.help
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