Xorg crashes several times a day

[Victor Sudakov]

Christoph Brinkhaus wrote:

[dd]

> > 
> > But really, is the graphics/drm-kmod port really necessary and why? The
> > default FreeBSD installation already contains /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko
> > and /boot/kernel/drm2.ko, and I load them from rc.conf.
> >  
> > Is anything wrong with them?
> 
> According to the FreeBSD Forum the packages are build for the oldest
> supported branches. For the 12 series it is currently 12.1. The
> drm-fbsd12.0-kmod is one of the very rare cases where is a conflict
> between FreeBSD-12.1 and FreeBSD-12.2 exists. Therefore it must be
> build from ports for FreeBSD-12.2 installations until FreeBSD-12.1 is
> end of life.

My question was a bit different. 

Why are the /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko and /boot/kernel/drm2.ko modules,
those that come with the GENERIC kernel, not good enough?

There is no problem keeping *them* in sync with the current installation.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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