i915 at boot

[David Benfell]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 08:07:29PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
> 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?

Yes, I'm running GENERIC, STABLE:

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

Should I try building a more recent version?

Thanks!
-- 
David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>
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