FreeBSD-12.1 on laptop

[Karl Denninger]

On 11/27/2019 10:14, vm finance wrote:
> Well, now after installing drm-kmod, system is in continuous reboot mode..;(
> Anything possible now?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 9:34 PM Kevin P. Neal <kpn at neutralgood.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:02:15AM -0500, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 07:50:59PM +0530, vm finance wrote:
>>>> Hi Theron,
>>>>
>>>> I tried to do:
>>>> pkg install drm-kmod
>>>>
>>>> It installed ok but still startx fails "Cannot run in framebuffer mode.
>>>> Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices"
>>>> please let me know how to workaround this.
>>>
Known issue.

Reboot single-user as root, get the X startup out of there.

You need to load the drm-kmod PORT (**NOT** package) and compile it. 
What's happening is that pkg is picking up 12.0's package for drm-kmod
and the ABI changed with 12.1, so if you load it you get an instant crash.

The other thing, however, is that if you use pkg you need to be VERY
CAREFUL when updating packages because it will "see" that the drm-kmod
is not the same version and try to pull the other one back in, and if
you let that happen it'll blow up again.

Yeah, it's a screw-up but that's how you get around it.

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