Problem Report: i915 driver most probably causing freezes on FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 10:42:53 UTC
Hello, I'm having an issue with the i915kms driver on a fresh FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE install. The system boots and shows the Display Manager (LightDM) without any problem, but after logging in, X crashes leaving a black screen and a dead keyboard. The crash occurs always about 3 seconds after user login, no matter there was any user activity. I need to shutdown the system remotely from my laptop through ssh. Loading the xf86-video-intel driver from xorg.conf.d/ instead of the modesetting driver leads to the same result. Forcing DRI3 from configuration file in xorg.conf.d/ doesn't help, nor does changing the acceleration options. As of DRM, I have tried drm-kmod and drm-510-kmod, both installed from packages and ports. I'm pretty sure that it is NOT a desktop environment issue because I have the same behavior with LXDE and XFCE (the later installed just for testing purposes), and also because everything works as expected when the default xf86-video-vesa driver is used (but then the system is too slow and just unusable for everyday work). A very similar issue has been discussed for FreeBSD 13.0 here [https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/i915-driver-causing-freezes-on-freebsd-13-0.80016/], and I have added some details about my own experience with FreeBSD 13.1 here [https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/i915-driver-causing-freezes-on-freebsd-13-0.80016/post-582154]. I attach hereafter the output of several commands, as suggested in this page: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Issues_.2F_Bugs . I can give more details if needed. Not sure whether this is the right place and/or way for reporting, so please be indulgent if I'm wrong. Thanks. Any advise or help will be welcomed, as I'm just clueless at this point after having tried every different configuration I can think of. Big thanks. Regards.