No devices detected when running startx

[Johannes Lundberg]

Bob Willcox writes:

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 01:04:47AM +0300, Greg V wrote:
>> On 03/14/2018 00:58, Bob Willcox wrote:
>> 
>> > I have updated my 12.0 current system to 330866 today and am trying to get X
>> > to run again. I had been running the drm-next version for sometime now and
>> > since the drm-next-kmod port had been merged into the ports tree and it had
>> > been almost a year since I last updated this system I thought it would be wise
>> > to update.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately it's not been going well so far. I rebuilt and installed the
>> > latest kernel, updated all the ports, and installed the graphics/drm-next-kmod
>> > port but still no joy.
>> Hi! Have you loaded the i915kms module from /boot/modules/i915kms.ko as 
>> the post-installation message tells you to do?
>
> Yeah, sorry I forgot to mention that. Here's my kldstat output:
>
> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>  1   58 0xffffffff80200000 21007e0  kernel
>  2    1 0xffffffff82302000 374048   zfs.ko
>  3    2 0xffffffff82677000 a390     opensolaris.ko
>  4    1 0xffffffff82682000 2d58     coretemp.ko
>  5    1 0xffffffff82685000 15e80    fuse.ko
>  6    1 0xffffffff8269b000 fd20     tmpfs.ko
>  7    1 0xffffffff826ab000 6df8     nullfs.ko
>  8    1 0xffffffff82d11000 79ec0    i915kms.ko
>  9    1 0xffffffff82d8b000 3f7f0    drm2.ko
> 10    4 0xffffffff82dcb000 1ed0     iicbus.ko
> 11    1 0xffffffff82dcd000 e50      iic.ko

'kldstat -v' will also show the file path of each module.
But, I can tell from the name 'drm2.ko' that this is the one from the
kernel (wrong module).

Do as instructed in my previous mail and I'm sure it will work :)