On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Marcin Cieslak <saper_at_saper.info> wrote: > >> Please note I originally loaded "i915.ko", not "i915kms.ko" >> >> >> Unfortunately, "kldunload i915kms" makes my screen blank >> and probably crashes the system (disk activity stops after >> a short while and there is no response to the keyboard input). >> >> //Marcin >> >> > That explains most of it. You need i915kms. It is conflicting with i915 > which already has the IRQ allocated. > > The black screen is expected. Once KMS starts talking to the graphics > system, syscons can no longer talk to the display, so you get a black > screen. To have a working display, you must enable vt(4). Add "kern.vty=vt" > to /boot/loader.conf to enable vt(4) which will keep the display alive. Yes, I do have "kern.vty=vt" enabled in the loader and without i915kms loaded my system boots correctly. I can load i915kms later per hand or when starting X, but it does not work with bootloader. I think it's a known problem as of September 2nd as stated on the http://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons page. (My machine is Sony VAIO SZ5MN). //MarcinReceived on Sat Sep 13 2014 - 09:37:29 UTC
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