Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 10:27:11 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Ekalavya <ekalavya.bsd@gmail.com> Cc: Trond =?UTF-8?B?RW5kcmVzdMO4bA==?= <trond.endrestol@ximalas.info>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot load intel driver(i915kms) without screen blanking out Message-ID: <20200512102711.ed7a47e1da448ca4c444f501@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.22.395.2005120810220.1514@devMachine> References: <alpine.BSF.2.22.395.2005120024590.1269@devMachine> <alpine.BSF.2.22.395.2005120911150.91211@enterprise.ximalas.info> <alpine.BSF.2.22.395.2005120810220.1514@devMachine>
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On Tue, 12 May 2020 08:19:08 +0530 (IST) Ekalavya <ekalavya.bsd@gmail.com> wrote: > But still, I don't understand why the i915kms driver would be written > just for the vt console driver. Why is the intel driver limited to vt, > considering a lot of people (and the handbook, for instance) often use > syscons? It isn't the Intel driver so much as the KMS (Kernel Mode Switching) subsystem which is supported by vt along with UTF-8 support, graphics modes, missing 80x24 and a bunch of other features that aren't in syscons. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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