are there any working drivers for the i915?

[Pete Wright]

On 3/19/20 10:23 AM, Chris wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:57:20 +0100 Michael Gmelin freebsd at grem.de said
>
>> > On 19. Mar 2020, at 17:54, Chris <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:
>> > > On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:21:30 -0700 Kevin Oberman 
>> rkoberman at gmail.com said
>> > >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:24 PM Chris <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> 
>> wrote:
>> >> > I'm unable to use X and friends on 12.1-STABLE on an
>> >> > Intel based box (Sandy Bridge).
>> >> > pkg install drm-kmod
>> >> > followed by
>> >> > echo 'kld_list="/boot/modules/i915kms.ko"'>>/etc/rc.conf
>> >> > on reboot results in a Fatal trap 9.
>> >> > pkg delete drm-kmod, followed by a pkg install drm-legacy-kmod
>> >> > leaving the same in rc.conf(5). Results in:
>> >> > drmn0: This code is obsolete abandonware. Install the
>> >> > graphics/drm-legacy-kmod pkg
>> >> > ermm... That's what I just did!
>> >> > Attempting to use X and friends with the legacy kmod still
>> >> > in place Results in most things crashing (dumping core on signal 
>> 11).
>> >> > Has the i915 simply been dropped. But nobody bothered
>> >> > to announce it?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks in advance for any possible solutions.
>>
>> On STABLE I’d suggest to install drm-kmod from ports (deinstall binary
>> packages first).
> I'm guessing you're spot-on. This is my only real attempt to build up a
> system with pkg. I've always built from ports in the past, and never run
> into this sort of problem. Given this spare is fairly underpowered by
> todays standards. I went the pkg route.
>
just to second the build from ports message, this is what i do on my 
STABLE systems.  i actually run "make package" inside the port directory 
so that I can go ahead and install the drm kmod via package which is 
helpful when debugging things.

the build time isn't too bad, and dependencies are pretty limited, so i 
haven't found this to be a burden on my end.  one note though, after 
installing the package from my local source i think lock it via pkg 
lock, this way when i upgrade packages in the future it doesn't try to 
re-install the drm-kmod with the upstream version.

HTH
-pete

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