Xorg crashes several times a day

[Chris Hill]

This seems like almost the exact issue I had a few days ago. See 
Tomasz's reply to my post 'drm-kmod kills FreeBSD'.

Once I built graphics/drm-fbsd12.0-kmod-4.16.g20201016 from ports, X 
worked well from then on. The one from graphics/drm-kmod crashed my 
system instantly. /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko didn't crash anything, but 
also didn't work.


On Sun, 24 Jan 2021, Victor Sudakov wrote:

> Victor Sudakov wrote:
>> Jacques Foucry wrote:
>>>> I forgot to mention that I've tried using /boot/modules/i915kms.ko from
>>>> the package graphics/drm-fbsd12.0-kmod instead of the bundled
>>>> /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko - but it is even worse: the X graphics screem
>>>> freezes very soon after startx, maybe a minute or two.
>>>>
>>>> Victor Sudakov wrote:
>>>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>>>>
>>>>> After a recent pkg upgrade, Xorg started crashing several times a 
>>>>> day:
>>>>>
>>>>> pid 71319 (Xorg), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 6
>>>>>
>>>>> The log https://termbin.com/68b1 looks pretty normal to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was unable to find the core file.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is anybody experiencing similar issues?
>>>>>
>>>>> 12.2-RELEASE-p2, xorg-server-1.20.9_1,1, xorg-drivers-7.7_6
>>>
>>> I know it's stupid, and you can forgot my answer, but did you 
>>> recompile from sources i915kms.ko module? The one which come with 
>>> pkg is buggy.
>>
>> No, I did not, just installed from pkg. I'll recompile/install from the
>> ports if you advise so.
>
> Well, I've recompiled and installed graphics/drm-fbsd12.0-kmod, now my
> drm_info output looks like this: https://termbin.com/481e
> I shall see how often Xorg will crash now.
>
> But really, is the graphics/drm-kmod port really necessary and why? The
> default FreeBSD installation already contains /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko
> and /boot/kernel/drm2.ko, and I load them from rc.conf.
>
> Is anything wrong with them?


>
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