Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:22:27 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xorg -configure ... Segmentation fault at address 0x0 Message-ID: <5490BEB3.40408@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <5490BDFF.1020901@hiwaay.net> References: <63848.1418769755@server1.tristatelogic.com> <5490BDFF.1020901@hiwaay.net>
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On 12/16/14 17:19, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 12/16/14 16:42, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> In message >> <CAN6yY1toL=k=uoWodDcwXC2hzW0crH_U6zed-QTPXPybw+bUGg@mail.gmail.com> >> Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> To ask a really dumb question, why are you doing "Xorg -configure"? >> Because when I tried just running "startx" (as per the instructions >> in the current FreeBSD handbook) I got this error and X did not start: >> >> Fatal server error: >> no screens found >> >> However I believe that I just now may have figured out what the problem >> is here. >> >> The system in question contains an AMD A4-6300 APU. This is not exactly >> a newly released APU. Amazon lists it as having been available since >> May 20, 2014. So the thing has been out for around 7 months or more. >> >> However the integrated GPU is apparently a Radeon HD 8370D. >> >> Looking now on this page: >> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics >> >> it appears that perhaps Radeon HD 8xxx is not yet supported by X on >> FreeBSD. I guess that is the problem, yes? >> >> I am bummed, to say the least. >> >> I guess that I will have to break out the old Radeon HD 5450 card that >> I have sitting and collecting dust in the closet, jam that into the >> ASUS A78M-A motherboard, and then see if I can entice the BIOS into >> using that in preference to the integrated GPU in the AMD A4-6300 APU. >> >> Sigh. I don't know how to do this, but I guess that I will find out. >> >> Any suggestions on how to accomplish this will be appreciated. >> (Obviously, it isn't just the BIOS but also FreeBSD+X that have to >> be convinced to ignore the in-built GPU on the APU in preference to >> a slower GPU on an add-in card.) >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > You could run the vesa server until your gfx becomes supported (as I > am). I have the same issue, an AMD jaguar CPU, w/ integrated gfx > (Kabini [Radeon HD 8280 / R3 Series]), which I knew to be unsupported > when I bought in last April 9, the day it was released to the public > :-). I plan on using this box for years, so I am patiently waiting for > xorg to catch up to this APU, whereupon I should be happy for years to > come .... $0.02, no more, no less .... > > From my xorg.conf: > > > Section "Device" > ### Available Driver options are:- > ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", > ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" > ### [arg]: arg optional > #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] > #Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>] > #Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>] > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "vesa" > VendorName "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]" > BoardName "Kabini [Radeon HD 8280 / R3 Series]" > BusID "PCI:0:1:0" > EndSection > > > I added the vesa line, the rest was already there .... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacccckkkk !!!! forgot to add: [root@kabini1, /etc, 5:21:27pm] 329 % uname -a FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Mon Nov 3 22:38:58 UTC 2014 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 [root@kabini1, /etc, 5:21:29pm] 330 % -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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