drm-*-kmod port for Comet Lake

[Kevin Oberman]

I think I have found the problem and it's not X related. In a thread on
current@ I have reported an issue with the system freezing. This has
happened repeatedly, often while I was installing packages. It appears
that, in at least three cases, some files that appeared to have been
installed were lost after a freeze. It looks like several files from
xorg-server were simply lost. (Well, actually lost when they were not year
fully witten with all metadata at the time of the freeze.)

So this was not an X issue at all. It's a file system problem that is
likely unfixable involving a system livelock as files were written to disk.

I am seeing serious X issues on the system, but that is for a separate
thread.

Thanks, Niclas!
--
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
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On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 8:31 AM Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se>
wrote:

> On 2020-09-09 16:37, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 7:10 AM Niclas Zeising
> > <zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se <mailto:zeising%2Bfreebsd at daemonic.se>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2020-09-09 02:30, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >      > Thanks! As often happens, I got it working just a little after I
> >     sent this
> >      > report. The problem is that I installed from packages and i
> >     didn't realize
> >      > that the default xorg-server defaults to devd and does not
> >     include the
> >      > modesetting driver. I pulled down the ports tree and reinstalled
> >      > xorg-server and that got X working.
> >
> >     This sounds like you have enabled DEVD manually in the ports options.
> >     The xorg-server version distributed with FreeBSD 12 and 13 uses
> >     udev/evdev, and the xorg-drivers meta package includes a dependency
> on
> >     xf86-input-libinput.  The modeseteting driver is part of xorg-server.
> >     Regards
> >     --
> >     Niclas
> >
> >
> > Very odd, but I installed the package on Sunday (6-Sept.) and my system
> > had no /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so. Only scfb
> > and vesa. I built the port (once I had downloaded the ports tree) and it
> > had the modesetting driver and X started up just fine. I was assuming
> > that udev vs. devd was the issue, as that is the only option (other than
> > wrapper). Is installing modesetting controlled by something else?
>
> The modesetting driver should be built and installed in all cases, on
> all versions of FreeBSD.  devd is still the default on FreeBSD 11, but
> udev is the default on 12 and later.
> If you still have the package (the actual .txz file) it might be
> intereseting to see if modesetting_drv.so is in the file.  I find it
> strange that it hasn't been installed by default.  There have been no
> reports from the pkg build cluster about the xorg packages either.
> Regards
> --
> Niclas
>