Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 14:52:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.de> To: j.m.cooper@borgsdemons.com Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KMS Question Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207021445580.60536@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <4FF1904E.7040604@yahoo.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> <4FF1904E.7040604@yahoo.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > 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. O.K. - so first I try to rebuild base. I have already got WITH_NEW_XORG in my /etc/make.conf . Support for AMD/ATI can't be worse than it was with xorg-7.5 . For now I would be happy to get some kind of gui back - even with VESA driver. Thanks for your help so far - I will report what happens. Greetings Peter. >>> -- >>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | Wuppertal | Germany
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?alpine.BSF.2.00.1207021445580.60536>