Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 21:59:07 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.de> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KMS Question Message-ID: <CAN6yY1t7aHgV4YTAyLyFKGq9jfEohScxgftwL0p7AFyOV1fo5A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207020635090.59952@pukruppa.de> 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>
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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
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