probs. with latest drm-current-kmod update

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 4/25/21 4:19 PM, lizbethmutterhunt at gmail.com wrote:
> did make the update and got a "nice" surprise: graphics didn't do anymore with
> "kldload i915kms.ko" so I thoughta I lost system. built new kernel (minimal),
> built new world, installed it, still graphics in 1024x768.
> 
> Thank god I forgot for a week or so to update the ports and rebuilt the older
> version of drm-current-kmod, surprise, surprise: graphs' back again in
> 1367x1280, taking the intel driver without any harm (still flickering
> sometimes but to be adjusted regularly in the compositor of plasma5-settings).
> 
> it's this graphical card (quite old!):
> 
> pciconf -lv:
> vgapci0 at pci0:0:2:0:	class=0x030000 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086
> device=0x0106 subvendor=0x1028 subdevice=0x0510
>      vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>      device     = '2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
> Controller'
>      class      = display
>      subclass   = VGA
> 
> 
> now problem is solved with "pkg lock drm-current-kmod" but still the question
> why it lost contact to the GPU? Just a version mismatch! dmesg has no
> particular output.
> 

Did you also lock the gpu-firmware package?

--HPS