Solved ivy bridge GPU on FreeBSD 15

[tOsYZYny]

I have a 3rd generation Intel CPU which I believe uses Ivy Bridge graphics. What driver should I be using? I have libva-intel-driver-2.4.4 installed and was previously using i915kms, but it doesn't load and I also don't see anything in dmesg output referencing i915kms.

 

[Phishfry]

What happens from command line when you run kldload i915kms?

What version kmod? drm-61-kmod ?

 

[tOsYZYny]

kldload: can't load i915kms: Operation not permitted

drm-515-kmod

I just installed drm-61-kmod, but no difference.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

 

[Phishfry]

kldload: can't load i915kms: Operation not permitted

Make sure it is not loading in /etc/rc.conf. I have a feeling something is already loaded looking at that message.

You want to load it by hand and see the results of the module loading.. Usually screen changes resolution as well when the drm module loads. A visual clue.
Perhaps you need to escalate user privileges or try as root.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

No sense worrying about that until you get i915drm up and running.

 

[loveydovey]

Operation not permitted for root? Maybe securelevel is raised?

 

[tOsYZYny]

Operation not permitted for root? Maybe securelevel is raised?

Good call, I forgot about that ...

 

[tOsYZYny]

Cool, haha, I was able to load i915kms now, hmm, strange though, I thought that was automatically loading before, even without it in my rc.conf or /boot/loader.conf. I'll have to dig. I can see that the intel driver is now being used by X11, so DPMS should work too.

 

[tOsYZYny]

Cool, I see that I did indeed specify it:

kld_list=${kld_list} i915kms