AST Aspeed AST2400 installation

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Tridac

Probably seems like a trivial question, but have just built another system for dev work. Has an onboard ast aspeed ast2400 video onboard. Have installed the xf86-video.ast package, but nothing seems to appear in /boot/modules. Usually use Radeon, for which there is a .ko kernel module, but not clear how to configure the ast to use. A search reveals nothing much.

Thanks.
 
I believe it should just work if the driver supports it. The only reason you need to load the drivers for the AMD, Intel, and Nvidea cards is because they are kernel modules installed from ports/pkg.
 
Tridac said:
Have installed the xf86-video.ast package, but nothing seems to appear in /boot/modules.
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x11-drivers/xf86-video-ast doesn't provide a kernel module, only a xorg module:

x11-drivers/xf86-video-ast/Makefile
Rich (BB code): 
PLIST_FILES=    lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ast_drv.so

Tridac said:
Usually use Radeon, for which there is a .ko kernel module, but not clear how to configure the ast to use.
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You need to configure a xorg.conf(5) file, e.g.:

/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ast.conf
Code: 
Section "Device"
    Identifier    "card0"
    Driver        "ast"
EndSection
then try startx(1).

If that doesn't work out, look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
 
Thanks, after an X -configure, copied to /etc/X11, we get errors, can't find the keyboard, can't find the display, but it is loading glx. Have seen this sort of thing before, so need to do some digging.
 
T_Daemon:

Thanks, the X init now recognises the video card. Run startx, blank screen, then get a keyboard error:

Quote:

"XKB: Failed to compile keymap
This could be a missing or iincorrect setup of xkeyboard-config."

Normally X -configure does work without a problem...
 
startx, keyboard error reported:

ld.elf.so.1 /lib/libc.so.7: version FBSD_1.9 required by /usr/local/bin/xkbcomp not found.

Failed to compile keymap

Yet,/lib/libc.so.7: is in /lib

Might be time to start again and reinstall.
 
I suspect the host OS is still 15.0-RELEASE. That's now EoL and packages are built for 15.1-RELEASE.

Tridac said:
Might be time to start again and reinstall.
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Upgrade the base OS, it's not that hard.
 
Tridac said:
n X -configure, copied to /etc/X11, we get errors
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Don't create a extensive xorg.conf file from the beginning. Xorg, nowadays, is self-configuring itself. Remove the created file, put only the driver xorg configuration file I showed in post # 3. Try the extensive configured xorg.conf file if all other attempts fail.

If the system is booting UEFI, you can also try x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb. Replace Driver "ast" with Driver "scfb" in the xorg conf. file.

Still no luck initializing xorg, look at the log file for errors.
 
Tried re install, but get the same results.

Normally, a standard install sequence is something like this

  • Install os
  • pkg add xf86-video-ast xorg xfce slim
  • sftp .xinitrc from another freebsd machine
  • Add dbus_enable="yes", and slim_enable="yes" to /etc/rc.conf
  • Reboot, and get a slim login
Won't work on this machine, a 1u high Supermicro X10SLH i3 compact, so
perhaps platform hardware issues ?

The annoying thing is that both Suse Leap and Xubuntu boot from media into the
install program recognising all hardware, but really don't want any systemd based
os. freebsd is the default here, for many years.

Edit: Sorry, missed the above reply meantime, i'll try that now.
 
Installed patches, and upgraded to 15.1:

freebsd-update fetch
freebsd update install
freebsd-update upgrade -r 15.1-RELEASE
freebsd update install

Reboot, and uname -a says 15.1

The error from startx is still quite clear:

ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7 version FBSD_1.9 required by /usr/local/xkbcomp not found

But /lib does in fact, have that file, so is it the wrong version ?

Or, could this be a hardware platform issue ?.

Real time embedded for work here, and more of a FreeBSD user, but ZFS and jails are
the most usefull features of all.
 
Tridac said:
freebsd-update fetch
freebsd update install
freebsd-update upgrade -r 15.1-RELEASE
freebsd update install

Reboot, and uname -a says 15.1

The error from startx is still quite clear:

ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7 version FBSD_1.9 required by /usr/local/xkbcomp not found

But /lib does in fact, have that file, so is it the wrong version ?
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You ran freebsd-update install only once, so only the kernel has been updated. Your userland is still 15.0. You need to run it at least twice (the instructions actually tell you this).

See freebsd-version -urk.
 
Thanks, that fixed it, so there must have been bug fixes between 15 and 15.1, even though 15 worked fine on two other machines here. One of the reasons i never install bleeding edge releases,, but wait until any issues have been flushed out.
 
Tridac said:
so there must have been bug fixes between 15 and 15.1
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Sure, but that has nothing to do with the issue you had. Packages in the FreeBSD repositories are now being built for 15.1 because 15.0 is EoL. Executables are backwards compatible, not forward. In other words it's fine to run an executable built on 15.0 on a 15.1 system, not the other way around.
 
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