KDE 4 hangs at splash screen when using KMS enabled 10-CURRENT

[Nikolay Tychina]

Interesting, last time I checked FreeBSD Wiki on Intel_GPU, it was
saying 'kldload i915kms && startx'.
Anyway, the system never hung up after I many times followed the instruction,
it's just KDE isn't able to finish its startup.

2012/6/29 Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Nikolay Tychina <niktychina at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>I freshly built x11/xorg and x11/kde4 on FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and was
>>>ready to use it with new Intel driver, but
>>>after I kldloaded i915kms.ko and started X, KDE just hung up at its
>>>splash screen after displaying its logo (last icon). Then screen got
>>>blank with only a movable mouse cursor on it.
>>
>> I disabled "Composite" extension in xorg.conf and KDE started fine. No
>> effects though.
>> Is there an issue with Intel driver or X or anything else?
>> Everything seems to work quite well, but I'm just curious.
>
> While this may or may not be the issue, you should not EVER kldload
> i915kms.ko! This WILL result in a hung system. You should start X
> normally (startx or via ?dm) and Xorg will load all of the required
> modules. I believe that this is in the wiki.
>
> Oh, and on't EVER kldunload it, either.It is definitely documented
> that this will panic the system.
>
> Several people have posted this problem on two or three different
> lists.(I am was almost one of them.)
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com