FreeBSD-12.1 on laptop

[vm finance]

Hi,

I had to comment out this exact line to get my system to boot successfully.
I actually have "Pro-level NVIDIA® Quadro® P500 graphics" on my P52S
Thinkpad.
Not sure if 12.1 has native support for this, or do I need to
download/build this.

Per the discussions on this topic, I think I should stay away from pkg
..drm-kmod

Thank you



On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:24 PM Daniele Mazzotti <kappei84 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't know if that is relevant, but in my rc.conf I have
>
> kld_list="/boot/modules/i915kms.ko"
>
> This was added specifically for my Intel graphic card. What is yours?
>
> If you decide to go for pkg add drm-kmod do not forget to lock the port
> and prevent it from upgrading.
>
> Il mer 27 nov 2019, 18:13 vm finance <vm.finance2 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> 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.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Karl Denninger
>> > karl at denninger.net <mailto:karl at denninger.net>
>> > /The Market Ticker/
>> > /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/
>> >
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