Re: Unable to get session by Ctrl-Alt-F<n> from Xfce, fvwm, fvwm3, (etc?).

From: Roger Marsh <roger.marsh_at_btinternet.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:19:07 UTC
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:58:02 +0100
Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 19/07/2022 13:52, Roger Marsh wrote:
> > … Dell D630 …  
> 
> Can you describe the graphics hardware?
> 
> For the graphics hardware, what software and firmware is installed?
> 
> Which version of FreeBSD, exactly?
> 
> Packages from latest or quarterly?

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pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xefe8-0xefef mem 0xfea00000-0xfeafffff,0xe0000000-0xefffffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: <Intel GM965 SVGA controller> on vgapci0
WARNING: Device "agp" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 14.0.
agp0: aperture size is 256M, detected 7676k stolen memory
vgapci0: Boot video device
vgapci1: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xfeb00000-0xfebfffff at device 2.1 on pci0

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Search on "freebsd graphics drivers intel gm965" led to forums.freebsd.org thread which mentioned drm-kmod.  I instantly remembered doing something with this years and years ago.  Installing drm-kmod and adding kld_list="i915kms" to rc.conf as hinted in the install message fixed the problem.

Apologies for forgetting.