From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Thu Mar 23 13:57:10 2017 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 839B2D1985D for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:57:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from info@microlinux.fr) Received: from smtp.nfrance.com (smtp-4.nfrance.com [80.247.229.46]) (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 4EEC01543 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:57:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from info@microlinux.fr) Received: from alphamule.microlinux.lan (nikikovacs.pck.nerim.net [62.212.104.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.nfrance.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A9004B4EC1 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:50:24 +0100 (CET) Reply-To: info@microlinux.fr To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org From: Nicolas Kovacs Subject: Can't configure Intel video card: hard freeze or fallback to VESA Organization: Microlinux Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:50:23 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 80.247.229.46 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, 23 Mar 2017 13:57:10 -0000 Hi, I'm relatively new to FreeBSD, after having used GNU/Linux (mostly Slackware) exclusively over the last fifteen years. I'm the manager of a small IT company in South France, and I'm regularly working as a Linux trainer. Recently I've become more and more curious about FreeBSD, since I'm a bit wary of the never-ending puzzle of the Linux world, and I'm looking for something sane and well-documented. I'm reading the fine FreeBSD handbook, but right now it looks like I have a showstopper. In my office I have a "sandbox" network consisting of three Dell Optiplex 330 PCs. This kind of hardware is extremely common in schools or administrations in France. All three PCs have the following video card. vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x030000 card=0x02201028 chip=0x29c28086 rev=0x0a hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller' class = display subclass = VGA To set it up, I basically followed the X11 chapter in the FreeBSD handbook. There seemed to be no way to make this card work with the 'intel' video driver. Either the system would make a hard lock up or fall back to the vesa driver. My first attempt was based on FreeBSD 10.3 amd64. After a number of failed attempts, I gave 11.0 and even 12.0 CURRENT a spin, with the same results. I tried to install a TrueOS system, and this worked correctly. I can't say what's the magical combination the TrueOS developers applied here, and before I launch into some more trial and error and more guesswork, I thought I'd rather ask here. Ideally, I would like to run FreeBSD 10.3 as a desktop on these machines. I would be thankful for any pointers on how to configure this kind of hardware. I'm not a lamer for RTFM, by the way. Cheers from the sunny South of France, Niki Kovacs -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : info@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32