Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:42:35 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xorg -configure ... Segmentation fault at address 0x0 Message-ID: <63848.1418769755@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1toL=k=uoWodDcwXC2hzW0crH_U6zed-QTPXPybw%2BbUGg@mail.gmail.com>
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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.)
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