FreeBSD-12.1 on laptop

[vm finance]

Ok - I deleted that faulty line from /etc/rc.conf and now system boots up.
and tried:
#kldload drm-kmod
and fails saying "can't load drm-kmod: no such file/directory".

Per another google post, it tried:
#kldload drm2, and that worked (i.e. loaded)
However startx is still failing - same framebuffer error.

Could someone suggest how to fix this?

Thanks so much for your help!



On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 9:48 PM Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> wrote:

> 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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