Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:19:27 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xorg -configure ... Segmentation fault at address 0x0 Message-ID: <5490BDFF.1020901@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <63848.1418769755@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <63848.1418769755@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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On 12/16/14 16:42, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > In message <CAN6yY1toL=k=uoWodDcwXC2hzW0crH_U6zed-QTPXPybw+bUGg@mail.gmail.com> > Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: > >> To ask a really dumb question, why are you doing "Xorg -configure"? > Because when I tried just running "startx" (as per the instructions > in the current FreeBSD handbook) I got this error and X did not start: > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > However I believe that I just now may have figured out what the problem > is here. > > The system in question contains an AMD A4-6300 APU. This is not exactly > a newly released APU. Amazon lists it as having been available since > May 20, 2014. So the thing has been out for around 7 months or more. > > However the integrated GPU is apparently a Radeon HD 8370D. > > Looking now on this page: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics > > it appears that perhaps Radeon HD 8xxx is not yet supported by X on > FreeBSD. I guess that is the problem, yes? > > I am bummed, to say the least. > > I guess that I will have to break out the old Radeon HD 5450 card that > I have sitting and collecting dust in the closet, jam that into the > ASUS A78M-A motherboard, and then see if I can entice the BIOS into > using that in preference to the integrated GPU in the AMD A4-6300 APU. > > Sigh. I don't know how to do this, but I guess that I will find out. > > Any suggestions on how to accomplish this will be appreciated. > (Obviously, it isn't just the BIOS but also FreeBSD+X that have to > be convinced to ignore the in-built GPU on the APU in preference to > a slower GPU on an add-in card.) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You could run the vesa server until your gfx becomes supported (as I am). I have the same issue, an AMD jaguar CPU, w/ integrated gfx (Kabini [Radeon HD 8280 / R3 Series]), which I knew to be unsupported when I bought in last April 9, the day it was released to the public :-). I plan on using this box for years, so I am patiently waiting for xorg to catch up to this APU, whereupon I should be happy for years to come .... $0.02, no more, no less .... From my xorg.conf: Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] #Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>] #Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "vesa" VendorName "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]" BoardName "Kabini [Radeon HD 8280 / R3 Series]" BusID "PCI:0:1:0" EndSection I added the vesa line, the rest was already there .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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