Hello Niclas, On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:19:18PM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 10/29/18 12:23 PM, Arrigo Marchiori via freebsd-stable wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I am encountering a strange problem with port graphics/drm-stable-kmod. > > My system is a 11.2-STABLE amd64 with GENERIC kernel. > > > > I upgrade the base system every week or two from source. My > > /etc/make.conf lists graphics/drm-stable-kmod in PORTS_MODULES, in > > order to have it recompiled with every kernel. > > > > When I install the new kernel, run mergemaster and reboot, however, > > Xorg is unable to drive the video card: something goes wrong with DRM > > and he tty belonging to Xorg remains black. The other tty's work > > well. > > > > I tracked down the problem to the file /boot/kernel/radeonkms.ko > > ^^^^^^ > > If I delete that file and reboot, Xorg works fine. > > > > My question is: why is that file there? The port > > graphics/drm-stable-kmod installs its module in > > /boot/modules/radeonkms.ko but the other version from /boot/kernel/ > > ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ > > seems to be loaded instead, and therefore Xorg does not work. > > > > Is this a bug of either installkernel, or the port? Or am I doing > > anything wrong? > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > Hi! > /boot/kernel/radeonkms.ko is part of the old drm driver that is in base > on 11.2 and 12. In order to load the module from drm-stable-kmod you > need to specify the whole path, /boot/modules/radeonkms.ko when loading > the module. > Regards Thank you for your reply. I should have read more carefully the pkg-message from graphics/drm-stable-kmod ! Best regards, -- rigo http://rigo.altervista.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"