I have installed FreeBSD on my system, and now I'm trying to get Xorg running. I went on my regular account and made a .xinitrc with one line to just launch i3.
However, running startx I get the following error:
I checked to see if maybe .Xauthority was not owned by me, but that was not the case. So I looked at Xorg.0.log:
Seeing the lines
However, attempting to either manually load i915kms with kldload or to load it with sysrc at rc.conf causes the computer to freeze entirely.
The line
However, running startx I get the following error:
Code:
xauth: file /home/Silly/.serverauth.2122 does not exist
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X.Org X Server 1.21.1.13
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 166.641] Current Operating System: FreeBSD lol 14.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE #0 releng/14.0-n265380-f9716eee8ab4: Fri Nov 10 05:57:23 UTC 2023 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64
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[ 166.641] Current version of pixman: 0.42.2
[ 166.641] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 166.641] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 166.642] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun May 5 16:30:30 2024
[ 166.644] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 166.646] (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section.
[ 166.646] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[ 166.646] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[ 166.646] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[ 166.647] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 166.647] (**) Allowing byte-swapped clients
[ 166.647] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 166.647] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 166.647] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[ 166.647] (==) Automatically binding GPU devices
[ 166.648] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
[ 166.656] (==) FontPath set to:
/usr/local/share/fonts/misc/,
/usr/local/share/fonts/TTF/,
/usr/local/share/fonts/OTF/,
/usr/local/share/fonts/Type1/,
/usr/local/share/fonts/100dpi/,
/usr/local/share/fonts/75dpi/,
catalogue:/usr/local/etc/X11/fontpath.d
[ 166.656] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 166.656] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[ 166.656] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 166.656] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 166.656] X.Org Video Driver: 25.2
[ 166.656] X.Org XInput driver : 24.4
[ 166.656] X.Org Server Extension : 10.0
[ 166.664] (--) PCI:*(0@0:2:0) 8086:46a3:17aa:384a rev 12, Mem @ 0x6000000000/16777216, 0x4000000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x00003000/64, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536
[ 166.664] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 166.665] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 166.674] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 166.674] compiled for 1.21.1.13, module version = 1.0.0
[ 166.674] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
[ 166.675] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 0
[ 166.675] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 1
[ 166.675] (==) Matched scfb as autoconfigured driver 2
[ 166.675] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 3
[ 166.675] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[ 166.675] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
[ 166.676] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module intel
[ 166.676] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 166.676] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[ 166.677] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[ 166.682] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 166.682] compiled for 1.21.1.13, module version = 1.21.1
[ 166.682] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 166.682] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 25.2
[ 166.683] (II) LoadModule: "scfb"
[ 166.683] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/scfb_drv.so
[ 166.683] (II) Module scfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 166.683] compiled for 1.21.1.13, module version = 0.0.5
[ 166.683] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 25.2
[ 166.683] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[ 166.684] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[ 166.684] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 166.684] compiled for 1.21.1.13, module version = 2.5.0
[ 166.684] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 166.684] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 25.2
[ 166.684] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[ 166.684] (II) scfb: driver for wsdisplay framebuffer: scfb
[ 166.685] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[ 166.685] (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
[ 166.685] (--) using VT number 9
[ 166.686] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 166.686] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[ 166.686] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 166.686] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for scfb
[ 166.686] scfb trace: probe start
[ 166.686] (II) scfb(1): using default device
[ 166.686] scfb trace: probe done
[ 166.686] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support
[ 166.686] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[ 166.686] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[ 166.686] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 166.686] (EE) Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices
[ 166.686] (EE)
[ 166.687] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 166.687] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 166.687] (EE)
[ 166.688] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.Seeing the lines
(EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory and (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0) I assumed the problem is the video driver. Since I have an intel Integrated GPU, I installed drm-kmod for i915kms.However, attempting to either manually load i915kms with kldload or to load it with sysrc at rc.conf causes the computer to freeze entirely.
The line
(EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section makes it seem like a config file issue, but virtually everywhere I've ever read says to not do Xorg config files, so I am reluctant to try that route...
Doing the same thing as tankist02 suggested, I managed to build and load the driver, and now X is running!