Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:27:57 +0000 From: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> To: matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel X3000 black screen using Vesa driver Message-ID: <4F49525D.5090102@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F493F3D.5090609@gmail.com> References: <4F493127.8060207@gmail.com> <4F493F3D.5090609@gmail.com>
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> .xinitrc works fine. I use it all the time...maybe try commenting out > all items and just put "xterm -rv"? Tried that now but still plain black screen? I do realize that most "black screen" issues are because a window manager hasn't been chosen but have done that above as directed by the text-book. > I haven't tried the vesa drivers, but xorg should work after using the > patches for intel graphics KMS. VESA only supports resolutions exposed > by the video bios, which are often "wrong". Yeah, I get that and would have been happy with 1024x768 displaying so that I could work on getting things better later. > > Meowthink has been posting patches from head backported to 9, my > understanding is you'll want to merge the xorg-dev port from here: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU (after the long list of individual > ports, or...) > and then apply Meowthink's patch. > > The xorg-dev merge will add some ports including a kms enabled intel > driver (3d, native resolution) Am gona try this now as I seriously feel that my card is too new for BSD, even the sound card doesn't work which is same problem I had with Slackware Linux before moving to Fedora which is more Bleeding edge or should that be unstable :-P > > Matt > > Regards, Kaya
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