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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 2021 22:49:01 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de>
Subject:   Re: Xorg crashes several times a day
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Christoph Brinkhaus wrote:

[dd]

> >=20
> > But really, is the graphics/drm-kmod port really necessary and why? The
> > default FreeBSD installation already contains /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko
> > and /boot/kernel/drm2.ko, and I load them from rc.conf.
> > =20
> > Is anything wrong with them?
>=20
> According to the FreeBSD Forum the packages are build for the oldest
> supported branches. For the 12 series it is currently 12.1. The
> drm-fbsd12.0-kmod is one of the very rare cases where is a conflict
> between FreeBSD-12.1 and FreeBSD-12.2 exists. Therefore it must be
> build from ports for FreeBSD-12.2 installations until FreeBSD-12.1 is
> end of life.

My question was a bit different.=20

Why are the /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko and /boot/kernel/drm2.ko modules,
those that come with the GENERIC kernel, not good enough?

There is no problem keeping *them* in sync with the current installation.

--=20
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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