KMS Question

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Monday, July 02, 2012 11:13:56 AM Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> > On Monday, July 02, 2012 10:16:43 AM Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >>
> >> please correct me, if I misunderstood something about KMS .
> >>
> >> I built xorg-7.7 on FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 11 23:48:45
> >> CEST 2 amd64 .
> >>
> >> When I do a plain
> >>  	# startx
> >> (no xorg.conf set) I receive
> >>
> > I do this:
> >
> > sudo kldload i915kms
> > sudo kldload acpi_call
> > sudo chmod 666 /dev/acpi
> > startx
> Actually this is my question: I cannot kldload these two modules 
> because I don't have them. I believed I wouldn't need them since 
> I don't have any Intel-chipset. Do I need them anyway?

ok, then we need more information. What kind of machine do you have? CPU and GPU?

To my knowledge, KMS needs an Intel i3, i5 or i7 to work. You cannot use KMS with all other CPUs.

You also do not need it if you have another GPU you want to use it in the system.

Erich