I've installed Xorg in the past and it has usually 'just worked' at least when running
I'm now starting from scratch on a new system and would like install a minimal Desktop...
I thought I was in luck when I found
[howto] Minimal FreeBSD desktop
Thread /35308/
but what started out as a 'Howto' six years ago has turned into a major discussion with almost 200 posts, and with FreeBSD continually developing, I guess a lot of the info contained is out of date and no longer relevant, for example:-
Elsewhere I have read that is no longer necessary, so I the absence of an up to date guide, I've simply run:-
It didn't work but produced the following /var/log/Xorg.0.log, from which I hope someone can point out what I've missed...
startx
with twm
.I'm now starting from scratch on a new system and would like install a minimal Desktop...
I thought I was in luck when I found
[howto] Minimal FreeBSD desktop
Thread /35308/
but what started out as a 'Howto' six years ago has turned into a major discussion with almost 200 posts, and with FreeBSD continually developing, I guess a lot of the info contained is out of date and no longer relevant, for example:-
Code:
Next we need to configure Xorg so run this command:
# Xorg -configure
Elsewhere I have read that is no longer necessary, so I the absence of an up to date guide, I've simply run:-
Code:
pkg install xorg
startx
It didn't work but produced the following /var/log/Xorg.0.log, from which I hope someone can point out what I've missed...
Code:
[ 82991.729]
X.Org X Server 1.18.4
Release Date: 2016-07-19
[ 82991.729] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 82991.729] Build Operating System: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p6 amd64
[ 82991.729] Current Operating System: FreeBSD Z83 11.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE #0 r321309: Fri Jul 21 02:08:28 UTC 2017 root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
[ 82991.733] Build Date: 02 January 2018 09:31:19AM
[ 82991.733]
[ 82991.733] Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
[ 82991.733] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 82991.733] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 82991.733] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jan 7 13:58:02 2018
[ 82991.735] (II) Loader magic: 0x80cc10
[ 82991.735] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 82991.735] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 82991.735] X.Org Video Driver: 20.0
[ 82991.735] X.Org XInput driver : 22.1
[ 82991.735] X.Org Server Extension : 9.0
[ 82991.735] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:22b0:8086:7270 rev 54, Mem @ 0x90000000/16777216, 0x80000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x0000f000/64, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536
[ 82991.735] (==) Using default built-in configuration (39 lines)
[ 82991.735] (==) --- Start of built-in configuration ---
[ 82991.735] Section "Device"
[ 82991.735] Identifier "Builtin Default intel Device 0"
[ 82991.735] Driver "intel"
[ 82991.735] EndSection
[ 82991.735] Section "Screen"
[ 82991.735] Identifier "Builtin Default intel Screen 0"
[ 82991.735] Device "Builtin Default intel Device 0"
[ 82991.735] EndSection
[ 82991.735] Section "Device"
[ 82991.735] Identifier "Builtin Default modesetting Device 0"
[ 82991.735] Driver "modesetting"
[ 82991.735] EndSection
[ 82991.735] Section "Screen"
[ 82991.736] Identifier "Builtin Default modesetting Screen 0"
[ 82991.736] Device "Builtin Default modesetting Device 0"
[ 82991.736] EndSection
[ 82991.736] Section "Device"
[ 82991.736] Identifier "Builtin Default scfb Device 0"
[ 82991.736] Driver "scfb"
[ 82991.736] EndSection
[ 82991.736] Section "Screen"
[ 82991.736] Identifier "Builtin Default scfb Screen 0"
[ 82991.736] Device "Builtin Default scfb Device 0"
[ 82991.736] EndSection
[ 82991.736] Section "Device"
[ 82991.736] Identifier "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
[ 82991.736] Driver "vesa"
[ 82991.736] EndSection
[ 82991.736] Section "Screen"
[ 82991.736] Identifier "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0"
[ 82991.736] Device "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
[ 82991.736] EndSection
[ 82991.736] Section "ServerLayout"
[ 82991.736] Identifier "Builtin Default Layout"
[ 82991.736] Screen "Builtin Default intel Screen 0"
[ 82991.736] Screen "Builtin Default modesetting Screen 0"
[ 82991.736] Screen "Builtin Default scfb Screen 0"
[ 82991.736] Screen "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0"
[ 82991.736] EndSection
[ 82991.736] (==) --- End of built-in configuration ---
[ 82991.736] (==) ServerLayout "Builtin Default Layout"
[ 82991.736] (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default intel Screen 0" (0)
[ 82991.736] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[ 82991.737] (**) | |-->Device "Builtin Default intel Device 0"
[ 82991.737] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default intel Screen 0".
Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 82991.737] (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default modesetting Screen 0" (1)
[ 82991.737] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[ 82991.737] (**) | |-->Device "Builtin Default modesetting Device 0"
[ 82991.737] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default modesetting Screen 0".
Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 82991.737] (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default scfb Screen 0" (2)
[ 82991.737] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[ 82991.738] (**) | |-->Device "Builtin Default scfb Device 0"
[ 82991.738] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default scfb Screen 0".
Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 82991.738] (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0" (3)
[ 82991.738] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[ 82991.738] (**) | |-->Device "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
[ 82991.738] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0".
Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 82991.738] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 82991.738] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 82991.738] (==) Not automatically adding GPU devices
[ 82991.738] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
[ 82991.738] (==) 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/
[ 82991.738] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 82991.739] (II) The server relies on devd to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure devd or disable AutoAddDevices.
[ 82991.739] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 82991.739] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 82991.770] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 82991.770] compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 82991.770] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 9.0
[ 82991.770] (==) AIGLX enabled
[ 82991.770] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
[ 82991.771] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module intel
[ 82991.771] (II) UnloadModule: "intel"
[ 82991.771] (II) Unloading intel
[ 82991.771] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 82991.771] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[ 82991.771] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[ 82991.772] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 82991.772] compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 1.18.4
[ 82991.772] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 82991.772] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
[ 82991.772] (II) LoadModule: "scfb"
[ 82991.772] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/scfb_drv.so
[ 82991.772] (II) Module scfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 82991.772] compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 0.0.4
[ 82991.772] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
[ 82991.772] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[ 82991.772] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[ 82991.773] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 82991.773] compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 2.3.4
[ 82991.773] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 82991.773] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
[ 82991.773] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[ 82991.773] (II) scfb: driver for wsdisplay framebuffer: scfb
[ 82991.773] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[ 82991.800] (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
[ 82991.800] (--) using VT number 9
[ 82991.800] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 82991.800] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[ 82991.800] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 82991.800] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for scfb
[ 82991.800] scfb trace: probe start
[ 82991.800] (II) scfb(1): using default device
[ 82991.800] scfb trace: probe done
[ 82991.800] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support
[ 82991.800] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[ 82991.800] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[ 82991.800] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 82991.801] (EE) Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices
[ 82991.801] (EE)
[ 82991.801] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 82991.801] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 82991.801] (EE)
[ 82991.801] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
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