Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:38:37 -0400 From: Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting Wayland Message-ID: <ZirbbXOmbi-XYp-6@rain.cave> In-Reply-To: <11bf01da9757$1440f040$3cc2d0c0$@seibercom.net> References: <11bf01da9757$1440f040$3cc2d0c0$@seibercom.net>
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 05:25:21PM -0400, jerry@seibercom.net wrote:
>I am unable to get "wayland-1.22.0" to run on my system. This is a new
>system. I wiped the HD clean and installed FreeBSD.
I've never used wayland, but...
>I installed drm-kmod which included the "i915kms.ko". I thought that module
>was the correct one to use. All it does is lock up the system if I try to
>load it.
I think that's the problem. i915kms.ko is the kernel module for
graphics processors integrated in Intel CPUs, but it gets tricky.
This is an ongoing problem, since drm-kmod is distributed as
ports/packages, not with the kernel, but it's part of the kernel and
has to match it. There are currently three versions of it:
5.10 FreeBSD 13
5.15 FreeBSD 14
6.1 FreeBSD 15
The port drm-kmod is a meta-port, that automatically selects the right
version. The package version of that meta-port apparently is
drm-kmod-20220907_3. The meta-port/package also installs GPU firmware,
which you need.
So you compiled and installed the meta-port drm-kmod, which compiled
and installed drm-515-kmod and a lot of GPU firmware ports? If you
installed from packages rather than ports, that's supposed to work, but
doesn't always, in my experience, I think because of version
mismatches. It's more reliable to compile at least the kernel module
port, in this case drm-515-kmod.
Also, just checking, did you load the kernel module with this line in
/etc/rc.conf?
kld_list=i915kms.ko
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