Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:53:34 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't configure Intel video card: hard freeze or fallback to VESA Message-ID: <1f8d1a45-740b-9856-b122-113dfb2dbfc5@nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <ad4fca92-59d7-2d25-0afb-06c929434d2c@microlinux.fr> References: <ad4fca92-59d7-2d25-0afb-06c929434d2c@microlinux.fr>
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On 03/23/2017 06:50, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > 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. do you have the Xorg exception from when it failed back to the vesa driver? also, are you using an Xorg.conf or letting X detect things on the fly (which is the preferred method). any debugging info would be helpful. as an interim workaround the SCFB driver is a good alternative to VESA. it is software accelerated, but in my experience performs a bit better than the VESA driver. SCFB is available via pkg's like so: $ sudo pkg install xf86-video-scfb -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA
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