Confused about i915kms on 12.1

John Kennedy warlock at phouka.net
Mon Oct 14 00:07:54 UTC 2019


On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 02:42:46PM -0700, Chuck Tuffli wrote:
> Many thanks to Pete and John. See inline below
> ...
> I upgraded the box per the release announcement:
>    freebsd-update upgrade -r 12.1-RC1
>    freebsd-update install
> with the prescribed reboots and installs. Afterwards, I did a pkg
> update and pkg upgrade. Note, I don't install anything from ports.

  The FreeBSD handbook might have the extra bits you were missing:

	https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html

  Bonus note: the 2nd "freebsd-update install" after the reboot to delete some now-obsolete files.

  The announcement really doesn't talk about upgrading ports.

  In 23.2.3.2 ("Upgrading Packages After a Major Version Upgrade") they say
to do this (among other things):

	pkg-static upgrade -f

  So pkg-static (vs pkg) in case you have shared-library problems with the
dynamically-linked pkg, and then -f to "force" the upgrade.  That may be
the missing piece here in getting rid of your previous-kernel packages
even if they might otherwise run just fine.

> $ pkg info drm-fbsd12.0-kmod-4.16.g20190814 | grep -i version
> Version        : 4.16.g20190814
>     FreeBSD_version: 1200086
> This version is for FreeBSD 12.0.

  Clearly the old 12.0-* kernel.

> The advice I received was 'you need to build drm-kmod from ports'. I
> don't typically have a ports tree, so I did:
>     # portsnap fetch
>     # portsnap extract
>     # cd /usr/ports/graphics/drm-kmod
>     # make && make install
> After doing the makes, my immediate thought was 'that finished too fast'.

  That is apparently a meta-port that doesn't behave like you'd expect.  I
had to do a similar thing for myself.  But I think the "-f" might have
fixed it for you above, if the packages were built on the repo (below).

> If, instead, I follow Pete's advice and run make package in
> /usr/ports/graphics/drm-fbsd12.0-kmod, a) make appears to do something
> and b) the resulting package allows my laptop to boot to a graphical
> desktop. And the FreeBSD_version looks correct:
> $ pkg info drm-fbsd12.0-kmod-4.16.g20190814 | grep -i version
> Version        : 4.16.g20190814
>     FreeBSD_version: 1201000
> This version is for FreeBSD 12.0.
> 
> I did go back and verify that a pkg install drm-kmod appears to
> install the same (older) i915kms.ko as pkg install drm-fbsd12.0-kmod.
> Out of curiosity, is the new world order that I'll always need to
> compile drm-kmod from ports, or did I hit a window where packages
> hadn't quite caught up to ports?

  I don't know.  Finding out which package your .ko file came from would
tell us a bit there.  I've just got in the habit of build all my packages
myself because I can get into the bleeding-edge area and run into problems
like that.

  I suspect that the official answer would be "hell no" and this is the
type of experience that the FreeBSD folks like to see for the purposes
off adding things to UPDATING and such.  But I know that it is going to
take a while for their poudraire to grid through all the ports

  In any case, I'm glad we got you up and running.


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