Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:37:05 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with the most recent Intel driver Message-ID: <1377099425.10745.12486709.048AEAE7@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJCmFP_YnQqzN_ySqsqmp7D_qoyXv580dBwvWR37tUd=dACTAA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJCmFP_YnQqzN_ySqsqmp7D_qoyXv580dBwvWR37tUd=dACTAA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi! I had to deal with this too, once, when I was doing a PC-BSD install on a netbook with Intel graphics. I worked around it by hard-powering down the machine after this part of the install, booting into single user mode, and then somewhere in /var/ I believe is a dotfile (.something) that either has info inside it or just the existence of the dotfile determines which part of setup has been completed. Deleting this file (or editing -- can't remember) and rebooting continued to the next part of setup. Unfortunately there's not much that can be done to fix this until the VT switching for the new DRI/KVM/Intel/whatever framework is finished. I don't know if there is an ETA on this work, and it may not even show up in FreeBSD 9.x. It would be nice if PC-BSD could detect you're using an Intel driver and modify their install process slightly to eliminate the need for a hack/workaround...
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