i915 at boot

[Dutch Ingraham]

On 01/20/15 21:42, David Benfell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 08:49:50PM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
>> On 01/20/15 19:56, David Benfell 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
>>>
>> What do the commands:
>>
>> <pkg check -Bva> and <pkg check -dva> return?
>
> I'm not seeing the connection, but this quite lengthy output is posted
> at: https://parts-unknown.org/stikked/view/f30670e0
>
> Thanks!
>
The /boot/loader.conf I'm using is:

kern.vty=vt
i915kms_load="YES"
kern.vt.fb.default_mode="1440x900"

You seem to be missing that first line.

Also, looking at the output of those two commands above (aside from a 
lot of missing shared libs and at least one missing package dependency 
which are likely irrelevant), you have the nvidia driver installed. 
Maybe someone with significant freebsd graphics stack experience can 
opine on whether there is some type of kernel module conflict causing 
your problem.