Re: [14.1-BETA2] Cannot run any Desktop Environment

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 8:46 AM Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 5:39 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 14, 2024, 8:34 AM Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> If anybody is interested, there seems to be a serious issue in either
> >> the intel video driver or in the kernel that interacts with that
> >> driver. All this could be related to sound through the integrated
> >> Intel HD 4600 video controller. Desktop Environments like Cinnamon and
> >> LXQT use PulseAudion that probably triggers this issue constantly in
> >> the driver and/or in the kernel. Other DEs like XFCE work better only
> >> because they don't need PulseAudio and only when PulseAudio is not
> >> installed. There is a scenario to trigger this issue in the XFCE
> >> without PulseAudio installed, though.
> >>
> >> For more information, logs and reproduce scenarios please read my
> >> messages in the following 278930 bug report:
> >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=278930
> >>
> >> Hope this will be fixed in the FreeBSD 14.1 final release.
> >
> >
> > Is that with packages? What happens if you build drm-kmod from src?
>
> Yes I installed drm-kmod from packages by the 'pkg install drm-kmod'
> command and then added "i915kms" into the "kld_list" inside
> /etc/rc.conf
> I can try to build drm-kmod from src but why you suspect the result
> could be different?
>

Because while we're pretty good about binary compatibility between
14.0 and 14.1, the kernel side of that is weak. In the past, this has caused
weird problems, not unlike what you're seeing. If you build from source
and it works, then we'll know it's that issue, and not something else.

Warner