FreeBSD-12.1 on laptop

[Clay Daniels]

My experience is from running 13.0 for several months, a new install most
every week. I wonder if 12.1 didn't inherit our setup. In the exit message
after you install drm-kmod it should tell you what to put in /etc/rc.conf
and give three choices depending on your processor. For an Intel machine
the correct entry (at least for the 13.0 folks) is:

*kld_list="i915kms"*

No path necessary. Give it a try.

Clay

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 1:52 PM Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:52:38 +0530, vm finance wrote:
> > Hi Theron,
> >
> > Ok - it tried this:
> > make -C /usr/ports/graphics/drm-kmod deinstall clean install
> > Reboot
> > make -C /usr/ports/graphics/drm-kmod deinstall
> > cd /usr/ports/graphics/drm-kmod
> > make install FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=1 /* make install failed suggested to set
> > this flag */
> > [drm-kmod-g20190710 gets installed]
> >
> > this seemed to work but startx fails again (same framebuffer error).
> >
> > I also tried to "kldload drm.ko" - still no luck!
>
> Did you also install the X driver for your graphics card?
> If you have a Thinkpad, I guess it contains Intel graphics.
> What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say about that?
>
>
>
> > BTW, if I go back to 12.0 RELEASE, would that solve the problem?
>
> It would at least solve the ABI incompatibility problem.
> Currently I have a system running v12.0-p7 with the following
> configuration:
>
> In /boot/loader.conf:
>
>         i915kms_load="YES"
>
> I have installed the xf86-video-intel package for X, and X
> starts without any configuration file. I also don't have
> anything DRM-related in any of the system configuration files.
> But X works as expected.
>
>
>
> > Ultimately, I need to rebuild with latest sources anyways to experiment
> > something w/ TCP stack,
> > so hopefully going back to 12.0 should fix - thoughts, please?
>
> If you get the latest OS sources and obtain a current ports tree,
> things should be in sync again. But don't use pkg to update your
> system in such a case without carefully locking the DRM kernel
> module port as mentioned before.
>
>
>
> > Any other ideas? Thanks a lot!
>
> Check if all components needed for X are actually installed.
>
>
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