KDE 4 hangs at splash screen when using KMS enabled 10-CURRENT

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sunday, July 01, 2012 12:24:57 AM Nikolay Tychina wrote:
> >> > I freshly built x11/xorg and x11/kde4 on FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and was
> >> > ready to use it with new Intel driver, but
> >> > after I kldloaded i915kms.ko and started X, KDE just hung up at its
> >> > splash screen after displaying its logo (last icon). Then screen got
> >> > blank with only a movable mouse cursor on it.
> >> > Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Do other window managers work? Is anything useful reported on the
> >> console (in case you use startx and log the output of startkde4
> >> somewhere)?
> >
> > KDE started one time for me without problems.
> >
> > Did you upgrade to the latest 10 sources?
> >
> > As I do not use KDE, I did not test it any further.
> >
> > One side note, X does not start always successfully with Intel KMS. My X220 freezes then but I cannot check with a second machine then.
> >
> > I would suggest the same as Nikolay that you start testing with a very simple window manager like blackbox or whatever you like.

I just started KDE for you and it worked. Here are the details:

KDE 4.8.3

Starting X is done by a script:

sudo kldload i915kms
sudo kldload acpi_call
sudo chmod 666 /dev/acpi
startx

.xinitrc looks like this (after deleting the comments):

xset m 10 3
xmodmap .xmodmaprc
exec /usr/local/bin/startkde

I only started konqueror to open FreeBSD.org. It worked as expected.

Erich