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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:53:02 -0700
From:      Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>
To:        "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 12 Xorg vs X11SSH-F / AST
Message-ID:  <4dbdbf1e-b823-20e4-8516-55bb9fdfab88@nomadlogic.org>
In-Reply-To: <2EDB82D8-9EC5-4988-AD1C-21305E712E46@dons.net.au>
References:  <2EDB82D8-9EC5-4988-AD1C-21305E712E46@dons.net.au>

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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




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