6.0 and console on ThinkPad x220

[Chuck Musser]

That's correct: if the i915 module isn't loaded, then the console works
normally. I tried loading the driver by hand after booting and the
console becomes frozen: nothing new is displayed. But, yes, the system
is still running. I've always been able to SSH when the console is
frozen. The console does take input: I tried typing the shutdown command
as you suggested and the system did respond by shutting down cleanly. 

I turned on the debug messages and it produced a ton of output. Nothing
stood out to me, other than the error I mentioned earlier. I don't know
what to look for really. But the error was this: 

error: [drm:pid886:gen6_gmch_probe] *ERROR* Can't set DMA
mask/consistent mask (-5) 

Another thing to mention is that I've had kernel.kms_console=1 in
loader.conf. I got that from an example but don't actually know what it
means. Generally, I'm wondering where to find documentation on settings
like that, and maybe find out about related ones. 

Chuck 

On 2021-05-20 03:26, karu.pruun wrote:

> So I am I right to think that you can get the console fine but loading
> i915 gives a frozen screen? 
> 
> To test this is true, remove automatic
> loading of i915 from /etc/rc.conf and see if you get to the login
> prompt. Then try manually loading i915 on console, as root do 'kldload
> i915'. You can get more debug messages by setting 'drm.debug=0x777' in
> /boot/loader.conf.
> 
> It will be a lot of debug output but might help diagnose the issue.
> 
> Question: when the screen freezes after kldloading i915, can you still
> ssh into the machine? Can you do 'shutdown -r now' by typing on the
> console?
> 
> Best
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