From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Thu Mar 23 16:53:38 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 1E8FED1AB60 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:53:38 +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 0876F1A51 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:53:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [10.44.139.220] (nat-192-187-90-115.nat.tribpub.com [192.187.90.115]) by vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 27fa2583 TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:53:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Can't configure Intel video card: hard freeze or fallback to VESA To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <1f8d1a45-740b-9856-b122-113dfb2dbfc5@nomadlogic.org> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:53:34 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; 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, 23 Mar 2017 16:53:38 -0000 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