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MID_RHS_NOT_FQDN(0.50)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 08:19:43 -0000 On Tue, 12 May 2020, Trond Endrest?l wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2020 00:43+0530, Vishal Subramanyam wrote: > Make sure you use the vt console, in /boot/loader.conf: > > kern.vty="vt" > > Try using absolute pathnames and load /boot/modules/drm.ko ahead of > /boot/modules/i915kms.ko in /etc/rc.conf: > > kld_list="/boot/modules/drm.ko /boot/modules/i915kms.ko" I actually solved the problem just before I saw your reply. I was using syscons, and when I read some of the boot messages, I saw a few lines about kern.vt.* under the i915kms driver. I realised what had happened and changed the console driver. Thanks for your reply. 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?