From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Fri Aug 23 16:59:46 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22EA5C9C4B for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:59:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [174.136.98.114]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46FSLT16MZz3yxJ for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:59:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.206] (cpe-23-243-162-239.socal.res.rr.com [23.243.162.239]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 4a6ba7dc TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:53:04 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12 Xorg vs X11SSH-F / AST To: "O'Connor, Daniel" , freebsd-stable References: <2EDB82D8-9EC5-4988-AD1C-21305E712E46@dons.net.au> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <4dbdbf1e-b823-20e4-8516-55bb9fdfab88@nomadlogic.org> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:53:02 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2EDB82D8-9EC5-4988-AD1C-21305E712E46@dons.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46FSLT16MZz3yxJ X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pete@nomadlogic.org designates 174.136.98.114 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pete@nomadlogic.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.81 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[239.162.243.23.khpj7ygk5idzvmvt5x4ziurxhy.zen.dq.spamhaus.net : 127.0.0.10]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[nomadlogic.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.98)[-0.983,0]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; IP_SCORE(-2.53)[ip: (-9.32), ipnet: 174.136.96.0/20(-2.99), asn: 25795(-0.27), country: US(-0.05)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:25795, ipnet:174.136.96.0/20, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:59:46 -0000 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. would you be able to share the Xorg.log from when it hangs? > > If I switch to the VESA driver (ie run X -configure, then change ast to vesa) it works but is *quite* slow. one other thing to try is use the "scfb" driver in xorg rather than vesa (it's available as this pkg xf86-video-scfb-0.0.4_7).  it's still a software renderer but it may be more performant. -p -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA