Testing the new i915 driver (855GM)

[bruno biondo]

Reply to a message On *Sun Oct 18 01:13:21 UTC 2*

At this time I came across with your question  while searching FreeBSD
mailing archives.
Citing what you said

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Now for my test with the updated i915kms:

- kldload'ing i915kms works (well, at least it doesn't panic as it does on

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I report this suggestion, substituting "radeonkms" with "i915kms":

>From https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics:
*Video driver loaded at boot time*


If you want to automatically load a video driver at boot time, we recommend
to do it from /etc/rc.conf:
kld_list="radeonkms"

Loading the driver from /boot/loader.conf is not recommended and may not
even work. Loading i915kms like this is known to cause a hang early in boot
with a black screen.

In the hope this will be useful to you, thanks.

bruno

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*On Sun Oct 18 01:13:21 UTC 2 you wrote*

Hi!

Today I tried my luck with the new i915 driver following the
instructions onhttps://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Update%20i915%20GPU%20driver%20to%20Linux%203.8

I updated the whole system from 10.1-RELEASE to -CURRENT about 3 weeks
ago, including a full port rebuild followed by make delete-old[-libs]. So this
should
be clean enough for testing. The only basic thing I had to change was putting
hint.agp.N.disable=1 in /boot/loader.conf (with N either 0 or 1). Otherwise I
get a panic
when agp loads. This used to work in 10.1-RELEASE. Since this machine is quite
dated,
I haven't found the strength to do a bisect to find the culprit. I decided to
better wait until
after I passed the differential equations test next month before I embark on
that journey. :)

Now for my test with the updated i915kms:
- kldload'ing i915kms works (well, at least it doesn't panic as it does on
CURRENT head)
- trying to startx with the xorg.conf I used on 10.1 RELEASE leads to a panic

Find attached:

* dmesg output
* xorg.conf
* core.txt of the panic

If you need additional logs or want me to try something else, just ask.

Thanks for your continuous work on this, Jean-Sébastien!

Bye,
Andreas
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