drm-kmod kills FreeBSD

[Chris Hill]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2021, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:03 AM Polytropon wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:09:49 -0500 (EST), Chris Hill wrote:
>>> On Thu, 21 Jan 2021, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
>>>
>>>> You need to build and reinstall drm-kmod-g20190710 and 
>>>> drm-fbsd12.0-kmod-4.16.g20201016 manually from ports, so module 
>>>> gets 12.2 stuff in it, pkg installs binary that is built on 12.1 
>>>> and will not work on 12.2 properly. This is a known issue and fix 
>>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Really! That's extremely helpful to know. Do I actually need both of 
>>> those? I'm not sure what the difference is.
>
> Yes you need to rebuild and reinstall both of them (make clean
> deinstall reinstall).

As it turned out, I only needed drm-fbsd12.0-kmod-4.16.g20201016. 
Despite the name, this worked on 12.2.

Thanks, Tomasz. I can stop tearing my hair out now.


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Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org