i915 at boot

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:44 PM, David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>
wrote:

> 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?
>

Well, probably wouldn't hurt, but technically should work without that.

What does "kldload -v i915kms" say?

For reference, here is relevant bits of mine:

 3    1 0xffffffff8139e000 b98c8    i915kms.ko (/boot/kernel/i915kms.ko)
        Contains modules:
                Id Name
                 7 vgapci/i915kms
                11 intel_iicbb/iicbb
                 9 intel_gmbus/iicbus
                12 drmn/intel_sdvo_ddc_proxy
                10 drmn/intel_iicbb
                 8 drmn/intel_gmbus
 4    2 0xffffffff81458000 5528     iicbb.ko (/boot/kernel/iicbb.ko)
        Contains modules:
                Id Name
                 3 iicbb/iicbus
 5    5 0xffffffff8145e000 5f08     iicbus.ko (/boot/kernel/iicbus.ko)
        Contains modules:
                Id Name
                 2 iichb/iicbus
 6    2 0xffffffff81464000 4050     iic.ko (/boot/kernel/iic.ko)
        Contains modules:
                Id Name
                 4 iicbus/iic
 7    2 0xffffffff81469000 77d88    drm2.ko (/boot/kernel/drm2.ko)
        Contains modules:
                Id Name
                 5 drmn/drm_iic_dp_aux
                 6 drmn


-- 
Adam