Unable to start X.org with KMS in FreeBSD 10.0 without using the new_xorg repo

[Arto Pekkanen]

FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p5, some Acer laptop with Intel HD3000 IGP.

Today I got bored of constantly updating packages with poudriere, and upgraded all of them with pkg upgrade. By this time I had a working X11 with Intel KMS.

The operation worked just fine, except that after rebooting X would not start; X.org log reported "(EE) No devices found".

The wiki page https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG suggests that all relevant packages are compiled WITH_NEW_XORG in the default repository (http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/). But it seems this is not the case. I had to add the http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/new_xorg/ -repository and do pkg upgrade, only then I managed to get X.org working again.

The reason why I assumed that the official packages would work is because there is no mention of having to use the "new_xorg" repo anywhere in the Handbook.

Should the relevant documentation (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-install.html) be updated so that people who have no previous experience dealing with this whole KMS issue can get their X.org working? The documentation could at least mention that "if the installed X.org won't find devices, please configure new_xorg repo and do pkg upgrade".

Should I mention this in freesd-doc mailing list? Or is there a reason why this issue has not been documented in handbook yet?

-- 
Arto Pekkanen
ksym at IRCnet

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