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lfa :emacs: :tux: :freebsd:<p>Finally I managed to make my graphics work again in FreeBSD after upgrading from 14.1 to 14.2 on my Thinkpad. I wrote a post about it in case someone could find it useful. Comments and suggestions are welcome.</p><p><a href="https://lucio.albenga.es/web-en/posts/2025/2025-04-17_KLD-i915kms-ko-depends-on-kernel-not-available-or-version-mismatch.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lucio.albenga.es/web-en/posts/</span><span class="invisible">2025/2025-04-17_KLD-i915kms-ko-depends-on-kernel-not-available-or-version-mismatch.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Thinkpad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thinkpad</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/i915kms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>i915kms</span></a></p>
ax6761<p>On <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> upgrade &amp; then <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/GPUDriver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GPUDriver</span></a> not working (symptom: invisible text post-boot) …</p><p>Check if the updated driver is available in <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/ThePorts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThePorts</span></a>; then compile/fetch &amp; install it from there.</p><p>You should have matching “src” for the currently installed base if the driver would need to be compiled.</p><p>At least the Intel "<a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/i915kms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>i915kms</span></a>" driver builds without too much wait so far.</p><p>I have used only the "main" branch of "ports" to build any port, regardless of "quarterly|latest" vintage for packages being used.</p>