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

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 9:37 PM Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 9:20 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
>
> It fails differently with locally built drm-kmod. I wrote about that
> in the bug report comment #8:
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> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=278930#c8
>
> How I built drm-kmod:
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> 1. download and extract src.txz and ports.txz from the 14.1-BETA2
> amd64 folder at FreeBSD FTP server
> 2. cd /usr/ports/graphics/drm-kmod && make install

Surprisingly versions of the drm-kmod (drm-kmod-20220907_3) dependency
(the actual driver) are very different:
1. drm-61-kmod: 6.1.69_2 (from ports)
2. drm-515-kmod: 5.15.118_4 (from pkg)
How could this happen?

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