beta3 loads wrong i915kms.ko

[jgroenveld]

Not sure why beta3 ships two i915kms.ko:
root@trident:~john # find /boot/ -name "i915kms.ko" -exec openssl md5 {} \;
MD5(/boot/kernel/i915kms.ko)= 61fe84a47cd360a36363bf919865c0a5
MD5(/boot/modules/i915kms.ko)= 69aca72b0f1a67066155f7875d8e160c

Out of the box, beta3's i915 driver does loads but seems to be close to a NOP:
Xorg will only run with SCFB driver.

loader(8) says /boot/kernel has precedence.
Removing /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko and rebooting works.

John
groenveld@acm.org

[RodMyers]

which video driver? EFI or BIOS?

[jgroenveld]

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> which video driver? EFI or BIOS?

Sorry about the missing info.
# pkg install trueos-utils
# about

===================
General information
===================

boot environment now (N) … 12.0-CURRENT-up-20180929_104757 NR 2018-09-29
       after restart (R) … 12.0-CURRENT-up-20180929_104757 NR 2018-09-29
boot loader …………………………………… BSD
            type ……………………… EFI
CPU ………………………………………………………… Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
    number of cores ……………… 8
host ……………………………………………………… w650rc
memory ………………………………………………… 16384 MB available, 10009 MB free
OS git branch ……………………………………………………………………………………… Mon
OS git revision ………………………………………………………………………………… Mon
OS kernel build time ………………………………………………………… Sep root@poseidon:/usr/obj/usr/src_tmp/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC 24 21:00:29 UTC 2018
OS kernel identity …………………………………………… (uname -i) GENERIC
OS platform (architecture) ……………………… (uname -m) amd64
OS release level ………………………………………………… (uname -r) 12.0-CURRENT
OS version and patch level …… (freebsd-version) 12.0-CURRENT
TrueOS package set ………………… 
TrueOS version …………………………… 
uptime ………………………………………………… 35 mins
user  …………………………………………………… root


I'll open another issue on missing "about".

John
groenveld@acm.org

[beanpole135]

Could you please run kldstat -v | grep i915kms to see which module is getting loaded on your system?
Trident is not using the bootloader method for loading that module, but instead has a "trident_init" service that runs on bootup which verifies the xorg configuration and loads the proper kernel modules neccesary for the designated video driver.

[jgroenveld]

Closing this beta3 ticket and opening a new one for RC1's trident_init and generate-xorg-conf.sh.
John
groenveld@acm.org