Intel KMS success

[Thomas Mueller]

from Niclas Zeising:

> On 07/03/13 21:28, David Demelier wrote:
> > Hi,

> > I've successfully get my intel card working :-). Thank for all your
> > work on this. However I only have two questions:

> > 1. I needed to build a GENERIC kernel, if not Xorg says "No devices
> > found" and complains about no files under /dev/dri*. I have built in
> > the device drm and device i915drm though. Do these drivers *must* be
> > compiled as modules?
        
> The i915kms kernel module should be loaded automatically when you start
> X.  There is no need to compile it into the kernel, and if you do so
> then the console won't work.

> > 2. The tty is broken after the X starts, I read in the FAQ that it's
> > due to the i915drm load, will it be possible to get this of this bug
> > soon?
        
> This is a known issue, and work is underway to fix it.  I have no idea
> when that work is completed.
        
> Regards!
--
> Niclas Zeising

I have in my kernel config,

device          drm             # DRM core module required by DRM drivers
device          i915drm         # Intel i830 through i915

but no kms.

Would that "device i915drm" be what screwed me when I tried to run the new Xorg but the computer immediately froze?

I would try first with FreeBSD-HEAD before trying with STABLE, but still will want a vesa version of xorg.conf to fall back on, in addition to Intel version.

Is there any way to compile i915kms into the kernel, even if inadvisable?  I searched for "KMS" and "kms" in the NOTES files, and not found.

Tom