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.
 
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