Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 20:09:07 +0100 From: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xorg crashes several times a day Message-ID: <382bee4e-46ca-41b2-12b2-f07295b88b74@cedro.info> In-Reply-To: <20210124191123.e14e770a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <YAz90Yiz1YC/wynK@admin.sibptus.ru> <CAM8r67AV4xMHTUMPJM9GHSGH_E1RAoUZ_QeBfbG06F6ishiYWw@mail.gmail.com> <YA1b/Evxfrk3NLj9@admin.sibptus.ru> <8e371d97-a723-92f9-a884-087cc240ff96@cedro.info> <20210124191123.e14e770a.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 24.01.2021 19:11, Polytropon wrote: > Won't that leave X in VESA mode? Any halfway modern desktop > environment or Linux-derived window manager will be slow and > useless this way, not to start about using Firefox or LibreOffice > or playing video... that's why it's recommended you also know > what graphics card you have _and_ install the xf86-video-<blah> > package that contains the appropriate driver. While VESA should > always work as a "lowest level solution", it will probably cause > problems for running or at least using actual programs. The question was about that fallback solution. I worked many many years on VESA driver and now I work on SCFB. At least its stable and it works. With xf86-video-intel I had serious issues on my laptop. So I switched to drm-kmod-fbsd and X11 modesetting because I need multi-monitor setup that is not available with scfb. The amdgpu crashes my desktop workstation so I switched back to scfb. OpenCL does not work yet so I usually connect over SSH. > In most cases, just starting X without a configuration file > will do the right thing, given the required parts are present. > Only older hardware might need manual intervention. Not with the scfb on my desktop. I had to create and modify the xorg.conf as described :-) I do not complain. I just want to focus on my work. In case of problems I switch to a mobile phone or macbookpro just to get the job done in 5 minutes that I usually have. In my free time I try to (sup)port the new stuff. I want to use it I should also add my brick to make it work :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, https://www.tomek.cedro.info
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