Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:45:56 +0930 From: "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12 Xorg vs X11SSH-F / AST Message-ID: <2EB91070-54F2-4046-BB5A-86FBE41FFBE1@dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <7AC86383-2C8E-427D-88BD-48B91FE9ECBC@dons.net.au> References: <2EDB82D8-9EC5-4988-AD1C-21305E712E46@dons.net.au> <4dbdbf1e-b823-20e4-8516-55bb9fdfab88@nomadlogic.org> <7AC86383-2C8E-427D-88BD-48B91FE9ECBC@dons.net.au>
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> On 24 Aug 2019, at 10:07, O'Connor, Daniel <darius@dons.net.au> wrote: >> On 24 Aug 2019, at 02:23, Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote: >> On 8/23/19 7:30 AM, O'Connor, Daniel wrote: >>> Hi, >>> We have a Supermicro X11SSH-F motherboard which has a ASPEED AST2400 = video chipset with FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE r341666 GENERIC amd64 on it. >>> Unfortunately I am unable to get X working with it properly, I have = the xf86-video-ast package (version 1.1.5_2) installed, however X seems = to hang when started. >>=20 >> would you be able to share the Xorg.log from when it hangs? >=20 > Ah yes of course :) >=20 > I also see that xinit is stuck in 'pause' then goes to 'select': > xauth: file /root/.serverauth.4556 does not exist I tried the binary driver from = http://upload.aspeedtech.com/BIOS/v10902_linux_freebsd_solaris.zip (the = xorg78_5 one) and while it works I would claim it's any faster = (certainly not smooth). I built the source version from = http://upload.aspeedtech.com/BIOS/v11001_linux.zip which was a slightly = newer version by replacing the source in the usual port, but it behaved = the same as the binary version. I also had an idea to try a last ditch hail Mary and set write combining = with memcontrol like the good old days of PCI VESA cards but.. [chumphon 4:05] ~> dmesg|grep vgapci vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xc000-0xc07f mem = 0xde000000-0xdeffffff,0xdf000000-0xdf01ffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4 vgapci0: Boot video device [chumphon 4:06] ~> sudo memcontrol set -b 0xde000000 -l 0x1000000 -o vga = write-through write-combine memcontrol: can't set range: Invalid argument Although I could set uncacheable (no difference). Next stop will be obscure BIOS settings I suppose. -- Daniel O'Connor "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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