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Date:      Thu, 4 Jul 2013 08:43:26 +0200
From:      David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>
To:        Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel KMS success
Message-ID:  <CAO%2BPfDfOUsmtJN2UDbMzwhgaaqvFkoDQsEoES380BHbQsfzyKg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <51D4817D.7000006@freebsd.org>
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2013/7/3 Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>:
> On 07/03/13 21:28, David Demelier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've successfully get my intel card working :-). Thank for all your
>> work on this. However I only have two questions:
>>
>> 1. I needed to build a GENERIC kernel, if not Xorg says "No devices
>> found" and complains about no files under /dev/dri*. I have built in
>> the device drm and device i915drm though. Do these drivers *must* be
>> compiled as modules?
>
> The i915kms kernel module should be loaded automatically when you start
> X.  There is no need to compile it into the kernel, and if you do so
> then the console won't work.

Yes, but when I had a radeon card I always compiled in the drm modules
as built in and it worked. Also when I compiled in the drm and i915drm
the console was working too. Weird. I will compile the drm code as
modules and I guess it will work :-).


>>
>> 2. The tty is broken after the X starts, I read in the FAQ that it's
>> due to the i915drm load, will it be possible to get this of this bug
>> soon?
>
> This is a known issue, and work is underway to fix it.  I have no idea
> when that work is completed.
>
> Regards!
> --
> Niclas Zeising

Regards,

--
Demelier David



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