Improve resolution from 640x480 on 32 bit laptop with FreeBSD 13-RELEASE

[Rocky Hotas]

> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 7:11 PM
> From: "Graham Perrin" <grahamperrin at gmail.com>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Improve resolution from 640x480 on 32 bit laptop with FreeBSD 13-RELEASE
>
> For your use of FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE, drm-kmod should have installed
> drm-fbsd13-kmod
>
> Try removing drm-kmod, then reinstall. What exactly happens?

I tried and unfortunately nothing changes: still no file with i915kms*
name.

However, I installed manually drm-fbsd13-kmod and now the i915kms.ko
file is present in /boot/modules. After modifying /etc/rc.conf with
`kld_list="i915kms"', it works. It takes a while to load the module at
boot, but eventually it succeeds. I wonder why drm-kmod didn't do this
by its own.

Warning: to be able to run X server, it is also necessary to install
xf86-video-intel. I had the same issue as in this thread:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/require-opengl-version-2-1-or-later.79827/

> > For older systems, there was a package `drm-legacy-kmod', but it
> > has been moved to `drm-kmod' itself on 2020-12-31, as stated in
> > https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-kmod (`Port Moves').
>
> <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253113#c3>

Sorry, I can't understand what you would like to mention.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Rocky