From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Thu Sep 29 02:42:39 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5B4C01742 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 02:42:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (unknown [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a098::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 17D425E6 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 02:42:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from LA-DGT-31327.local (cpe-23-242-83-219.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.83.219]) by vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id a88ba6db TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: <439e20fa-6385-68fb-c97e-24705ebd2f94@nomadlogic.org> <157496f7268.ac5eb5ca278618.8741026532558973404@nextbsd.org> <20160920212545.GU8480@rancor.immure.com> <20160920221954.GV8480@rancor.immure.com> <20160921233610.GI845@rancor.immure.com> <9582349b-cf1e-1d75-4784-a1d712aedac4@nomadlogic.org> <1574f2fb8aa.e60df17234511.2445927962639207447@nextbsd.org> <20160923122301.GK845@rancor.immure.com> <20160929014049.GV845@rancor.immure.com> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <3d7950a2-0312-0a17-cce5-9eece2430daa@nomadlogic.org> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:42:39 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160929014049.GV845@rancor.immure.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 02:42:39 -0000 On 9/28/16 6:40 PM, Bob Willcox wrote: > > Well, I may have spoken a little too soon. I switched monitors (from a > 1920x1080 Dell to a 2560x1440 Dell) and installed vlc (with a number of > dependencies) and now X won't start up for my ID any longer (still works for > root). In case it may help, below is my latest Xorg.0.log file. For some > reason the intel driver isn't working. Note the line: > > (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev > > And then it trys fbdev, which also fails due to a problem with fbdevhw. Anyone > have any idea what may be wrong? > interesting - are you specifically calling fbdev in your xorg.conf? this is an unaccelerated driver i think, which leads me to believe that the xf86-intel driver is not working for some reason. what is the version of your xf86-intel driver? this is the version i am using with my skylake system: $ pkg info -f xf86-video-intel-2.99.917.20160614 xf86-video-intel-2.99.917.20160614 Name : xf86-video-intel Version : 2.99.917.20160614 Installed on : Thu Jul 28 18:45:42 2016 PDT Origin : x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel Architecture : freebsd:12:x86:64 also this is the relevant section of my xorg for reference: Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "intel" Option "TearFree" "true" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" EndSection -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org nomadlogicLA