Re: Issues with i915drmkms on AMD64

[David Mackay <davidm.jx8p%gmail.com@localhost>]

I've updated my sources to include this change. Unfortunately, it has
not made a difference.

Thanks for letting me know about it, though.

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Jeff Rizzo <riz%tastylime.net@localhost> wrote:
> On 7/13/14, 11:28 AM, David Mackay wrote:
>>
>> Today I've attempted to try out the new i915drmkms support on NetBSD
>> 6.99.47-CURRENT. I've built the DRMKMS kernel conf and installed its
>> modules, and attempted to boot.
>>
>> Unfortunately, despite having all relevant debug options checked, it
>> seems that NetBSD kernel simply freezes after displaying the line:
>>
>> i915drmkms0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 [...]
>
>
> There was a change checked in very recently (less than 18h) which fixed this
> for me:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2014/07/13/msg056288.html
>
> - make sure the kernel you're using was built with this change.
>
>
>> I've also tried the prebuilt kernel from Nonaka at
>> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/nonaka/drmkms/ which did not
>> work either, except in its case, the screen was blanked and then
>> froze.
>>
>> On the other hand, gsutre's DRMGEM *does* work fine.
>>
>> This is on a ThinkPad T410 with an i5-560m CPU and Intel IronLake HD
>> Graphics.
>
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