i915 at boot

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:56 PM, David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 05:22:58PM -0800, David Benfell wrote:
> >
> > I notice after starting Xorg, that my console font is a lot more
> > reasonable and I would like for this font to be activated at boot.
> > Here is the loader.conf snippet I have added:
> >
> > i915kms_load="YES"
> > kern.vt.fb.default_mode="1366x768"
> >
> > But I'm still getting the oversize default font. I am running:
> >
> > FreeBSD n4rky.parts-unknown.org 10.1-STABLE FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #0
> > r275948: Fri Dec 19 19:42:39 PST 2014
> > root at n4rky.parts-unknown.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> >
> Looking into this further; dmesg tells me I'm missing dependencies. It
> doesn't tell me what those dependencies are. And Google is not
> enlightening me as to how to determine what those dependencies are.
>
> I tried adding i915. No joy:
>
> VT: running with driver "vga".
> KLD file i915.ko is missing dependencies
> KLD file i915kms.ko is missing dependencies
>

kern.vty="vt"
i915kms_load="YES"

is completely sufficient for me to load all the needed parts so I suspect
you have an issue with your modules.  Are you running GENERIC?

-- 
Adam