Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:15:35 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg fails w/scfb: Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs Message-ID: <20170320181535.GA73408@rancor.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <216cdbb4-9280-1104-1c2f-83668beffaf0@nomadlogic.org> References: <20170320180426.GA73014@rancor.immure.com> <216cdbb4-9280-1104-1c2f-83668beffaf0@nomadlogic.org>
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:07:15AM -0700, Pete Wright wrote: > > > On 03/20/17 11:04, Bob Willcox wrote: > > I had to reboot my system this morning (power outage over the weekend forced > > it) and now X won't start, failing with these error msgs from the Xorg.log: > > > > [ 143.327] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory > > [ 143.327] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting > > [ 143.327] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory > > [ 143.327] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for scfb > > [ 143.327] scfb trace: probe start > > [ 143.327] (II) scfb(1): using default device > > [ 143.327] scfb trace: probe done > > [ 143.327] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support > > [ 143.327] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. > > [ 143.327] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting" > > [ 143.327] (EE) > > > > Fatal server error: > > [ 143.327] (EE) Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices > > [ 143.328] (EE) > > [ 143.328] (EE) > > > > This is on an Intel NUC system with a i7-5557U (Broadwell) CPU. The uname -a > > output is: > > > > FreeBSD tavion.austin.ibm.com 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #3 r315638: Mon Mar 20 11:44:00 CDT 2017 root@tavion.austin.ibm.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TAVION amd64 > > > > This system has been running with the scfb frame buffer driver for a couple of > > years now with X running fine (if a bit slow). > > > > I just updated my ports 3/14 to revision 436172. Hadn't rebooted till today. > > > > I updated the system this morning hoping that would help, but no such luck as > > I still get the same failure. > > > > Note that I am loading the i915kms.ko module as instructed in the > > /usr/ports/UPDATING file (have been doing that all along) so it would seem > > that I've run into something else. > > > > Also, reading the FreeBSD wiki for SCFB I added this file in > > /usr/local/bin/etc/xorg.conf.d/driver-scfb.conf: > > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Card0" > > Driver "scfb" > > EndSection > > > > Without any descernable change. > > On my i7 skylake system I have inserted this like in my xorg.conf: > > BusID "PCI:0:2:0" > > This has allowed me to use modesetting, intel and scfb Xorg drivers > without issue. I am not sure why X isn't able to autodetect the > appropriate BusID though... > > hope this helps, > -pete > > -- > Pete Wright > pete@nomadlogic.org > @nomadlogicLA Thanks for the reply Pete. Would you mind sending me all of your xorg.conf file? For some reason this system had been running w/o one all this time but I think it's time for me to create one for it. At this point the closest thing I have to one is the driver-scfb.conf file I showed above. Thanks again, Bob -- Bob Willcox | You're dead, Jim. bob@immure.com | -- McCoy, "The Tholian Web", stardate unknown Austin, TX |
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