Help with UHD Graphics 630

Montgomery-Smith, Stephen stephen at missouri.edu
Tue Nov 13 17:22:17 UTC 2018


On 11/12/18 7:10 PM, Pete Wright wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Unfortunately that's not the issue.  I had a typo in my previous email, 
and it should have said the correct thing:

In /etc/rc.conf I have the line
kld_list="/boot/modules/i915kms.ko"



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