Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:50:23 +0100 From: Nicolas Kovacs <info@microlinux.fr> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Can't configure Intel video card: hard freeze or fallback to VESA Message-ID: <ad4fca92-59d7-2d25-0afb-06c929434d2c@microlinux.fr>
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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.
My first attempt was based on FreeBSD 10.3 amd64. After a number of
failed attempts, I gave 11.0 and even 12.0 CURRENT a spin, with the same
results.
I tried to install a TrueOS system, and this worked correctly. I can't
say what's the magical combination the TrueOS developers applied here,
and before I launch into some more trial and error and more guesswork, I
thought I'd rather ask here. Ideally, I would like to run FreeBSD 10.3
as a desktop on these machines. I would be thankful for any pointers on
how to configure this kind of hardware. I'm not a lamer for RTFM, by the
way.
Cheers from the sunny South of France,
Niki Kovacs
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