KMS Question

[John Merryweather Cooper]

On 07/02/12 02:58, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich at pukruppa.de>
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>> I have got an amd64 CPU and some ATI Radeon graphics chip. As far as I
>> have
>>> heard the latter isn't well supported, but I don't mind for now: It
>> should
>>> at least be able to run the default vesa driver.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>> So I have to patch my base system anyway?
>>> Where can I get the latest patches?
>>>
>>> Peter.
>>>
>>>> Erich
>>>>
>> 11 June is just about the date that the updates were all merged into
>> 9-Stable. I suggesting updating sources to at least 15 Jun (or, better
>> still, today) and buidl that. No additional patches are needed. DO NOT
>> SET "WITH_KMS"! KMS is ONLY for Intel CPU/GPU processors. You can give
>> it a try WITH_NEW_XORG, though. If you don't have KMS, you will not
>> have i915-kms.ko, so don't worry. (Maybe someone will volunteer to
> write an AMD/ATi KMS driver some day, but no one has to date.)
>> You might try an initial startx with no Xorg.conf file. It usually
>> works. You probably won't have a need for acpi_call, either, and it is
>> from the acpi_call port and not part of the base system. It lets you
>> poke at ACPI paramters.
>> --
>> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
>> E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com
>
>
> I have WITH_KMS ( and WITH_NEW_XORG ) set on my laptop which uses the
> nvidia binary driver. Works like a charm.
>
> But I agree with proposed solution: update sources and rebuild.
>
> Have you done the xorgmerge step?
>
> Best regards
> Andreas
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I also have WITH_KMS and WITH_NEW_XORG set on my HP G7 which has an AMD 
Vision A4 chipset and is running under the X11 vesa driver.  I built it 
up from source after cleaning off the machine.  Works fine.
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John M. Cooper

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John M. Cooper