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Date:      Mon, 2 Jul 2012 06:13:56 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.de>
To:        Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KMS Question
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207020610120.59952@pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <201207021054.22814.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207020503160.63787@pukruppa.de> <201207021054.22814.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>

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On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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?

Greetings

Peter.
>
> via a script as the screen goes blank after the first kldload.
>
> People say that this is wrong but it works for me.
>
> Did you upgrade and compile the kernel and the affected ports?
>
> If not do an upgrade. Ask Google for the ports affected.
>
> Before I forget it, my xorg.conf only contains things about fonts and modules but is not blank.
>
> Erich
>


| Peter Ulrich Kruppa
| Wuppertal
| Germany



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