Help with UHD Graphics 630

[Pete Wright]

On 11/12/18 4:37 PM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
> On 11/12/18 2:56 PM, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>> On 11/12/18 9:20 PM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
>>> On 11/12/18 1:12 PM, Pete Wright wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 11/12/18 9:33 AM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
>>>>> I have a Dell Optiplex 5060, which has the i5-8500 CPU and the UHD
>>>>> Graphics 630 Card.  I am currently running FreeBSD-12.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I get this graphics card to work with something other than the
>>>>> VESA driver?
>>>>>
>>>>> I did some googling, and installed the drm-next-kmod port, but that
>>>>> didn't seem to work.  kldstat has i915kms listed.
>>>> its hard to help without more information, but a quick think to check is
>>>> to make sure you are in the "video" group.  if you are and are still
>>>> having issues can you please send over the output of "dmesg" as well as
>>>> a copy of your /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
>>>
>>> Thanks.  Yes, I am in the video group.  Here are the outputs as
>>> attachments.  I'll send it again if the attachments get removed.
>>>
>> Hi!
>>  From what I can see, i915kms never attaches to any hardware.  Can you
>> verify that you are loading /boot/modules/i915kms.ko, and can you
>> provide the output of kldstat -v | egrep '(drm|i915)' .
> Here is the output.
>                  113 drmn/fbd
>   6    1 0xffffffff829f0000   1203e0 i915kms.ko (/boot/modules/i915kms.ko)
>   7    1 0xffffffff82b11000    74730 drm.ko (/boot/modules/drm.ko)
>                  509 drmn
>
>
> In /boot/rc.conf I have the line
> kld_list="/boot/modules/i915kms.ko"

oh i see the issue, you need to update /etc/rc.conf *not* 
/boot/rc.conf.  after updating that file with the above kld_list line 
you pasted and reboot, the appropriate driver should load.

cheers,
-pete

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Pete Wright
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