the xorg-7.7_3 package will not run on a blank system

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2021-01-20 06:24, Tod McQuillin via freebsd-x11 wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, doug wrote:
> 
>> With all the stated issues with 12.2 and since FreeBSD 11.3 with Xorg 
>> 7.7_2 was working in this system, I installed 11.4 along with the the 
>> only available package which is 7.7_3. The issue with Lenovo seems to 
>> be with Xorg rather than FreeBSD. I get essentially the same results. 
>> I've installed:
>>
>>   xorg-7.7_3
>>   xorg-apps-7.7_4
>>   xorg-docs-1.7.1,1
>>   xorg-drivers-7.7_6
>>   drm-fbsd11.2-kmod-4.11g20200420
>>   drm-kmod-g20190710
> 
>>  [  7037.448] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
>>  [  7037.448] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module intel
>>  [  7037.448] (EE) Failed to load module "intel"
>>                    (module does notexist, 0)
> 
> Do you have xf86-video-intel installed?
> 
> You're probably going to need that as well if you haven't got it already.
> 

You should not need xf86-video-intel installed, modesetting works fine.
However, have you actually loaded the kernel driver?  The original error 
seem to indicate that you haven't.
Can you verify that /boot/modules/i915kms.ko is actually loaded, before 
starting X?
Regards
-- 
Niclas