FreeBSD-12.1 on laptop

[vm finance]

Please find error output of startx....and kldstat output as well.

Thanks everyone for your support and help!

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 6:16 PM Daniele Mazzotti <kappei84 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you grep for Kms in the boot modules? Also as suggested in the link
> sent by Per is your user part of the video group? If not please just add
> it. When you compiled the drm-kms port have you noticed any error?
>
> Il gio 28 nov 2019, 13:08 vm finance <vm.finance2 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> I don't see /boot/modules/i915kms.ko under /boot/modules
>> However there are several other present:
>> i915_bxt_*
>> i915_cnl*
>> i915_kbl*...
>>
>> How do I get i915kms.ko?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 5:01 PM Per Hedeland <per at hedeland.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On 2019-11-28 11:03, vm finance wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > Its Intel's "UHD Graphics 620". I don't see it installed/loaded under
>> > > "kldstat".
>> > >
>> > > Do you think steps mentioned in
>> > > http://www.srobb.net/freebsdintel.html
>> > >
>> > > would suffice to get around the issue I have?
>> > > If not, could u please suggest next steps.
>> > >
>> > > Pls let me know. Thanks so much!
>> >
>> > Sigh, after all the discussion and problem / fix reports (mostly on
>> > the freebsd-x11@ list, which I'm adding to Cc) about the "new DRM"
>> > stuff, one would think that there should be some simple-to-follow
>> > *FreeBSD* web page that explained it all and could be pointed to if
>> > not immediately found.
>> >
>> > There is https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics, which IMHO is neither
>> > simple to find nor to follow, and which still has the broken-with-12.1
>> > "pkg install drm-kmod" advice. I think it is sad, since there's a lot
>> > of great work that has gone into this - personally I have a laptop
>> > that wouldn't have had *any* graphics (on FreeBSD) without it, and I
>> > know I'm not alone in that.
>> >
>> > Anyway, enough ranting - if you look at the "Intel Integrated Graphics
>> > (aka HD Graphics)" section on the above page, and specifically the
>> > "Example Configuration For Post Broadwell System", and *skip* the bad
>> > pkg advice, you'll find that the next step is to add
>> >
>> >      kld_list="/boot/modules/i915kms.ko"
>> >
>> > to rc.conf - and actually the "post-install package message" will have
>> > told you so, but yeah, who reads those things...
>> >
>> > The problem (not explained anywhere that I can find right now) is that
>> > after building and installing the drm-kmod port (or package), you have
>> > *two* drivers called i915kms installed. One is part of the base
>> > system, /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko - this is the one that doesn't work
>> > for you (or me), and gets loaded if you do "kldload i915kms". The
>> > other is from the port that you installed, and it's the above
>> > /boot/modules/i915kms.ko - you must ensure that this is the one that
>> > is loaded.
>> >
>> > The above line makes sure that this happens at reboot (loading via
>> > boot/loader.conf has been reported to *not* work in at least *some*
>> > cases, and there's no advantage over loading via /etc/rc.conf), but
>> > you can also do it manually for testing, by using the full path with
>> > "kldload":
>> >
>> >    kldload /boot/modules/i915kms.ko
>> >
>> > Read and follow also the subsequent steps in the example, as well as
>> > the "Note:" at the end of the section. If your card is actually
>> > supported (and frankly I'm not sure how to figure that out in any
>> > other way than trying it), you should be fine at that point.
>> >
>> > --Per Hedeland
>> >
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