CURRENT: Intel Haswell KMS support?

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Arthur Chance wrote:

> On 05/01/2015 08:44, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> El día Monday, January 05, 2015 a las 08:35:37AM +0000, Arthur Chance 
>> escribió:
>> 
>>> To use the vt driver on my system I have the following two lines in
>>> /boot/loader.conf
>>> 
>>> kern.vty=vt
>>> i915kms_load="YES"
>>> 
>>> Try that (and reboot of course) and see what happens.
>> 
>> Be carefully with the last line (i915kms_load="YES") and prepared to
>> boot from another media to reset it again, because some hardware does
>> not boot with this.
>
> Any idea what hardware triggers this? I've got an i7-4790K CPU on an Asus 
> Z97-A mobo and that works OK for the record.

Manually loading the module is not necessary, and sometimes causes 
problems.  There is also hw.vga.textmode=1, which causes vt to remain in 
text mode until a switch to graphics is made, like starting X.  This can 
make booting faster, mostly due to text scrolling.