Xorg intel driver cannot start X

michlaustn

michlaustn

Hi,

I have recently installed Freebsd FreeBSD 9.1. After installation I installed the packages for KDE4 and Xorg ( pkg_add -r kde4 xorg). These both work except for one thing, the video driver in use by Xorg. I can run startx and KDE4 will start, however the video performance is poor.

When I run Xorg -configure and use the rsulting xorg.conf file again the performance is poor and the configuration file details that the video driver in use is Mesa.

When I change the xorg.conf file to use intel rather than vesa as the video driver, Xorg fails to start complaining that it cannot find a screen.

How can I enable the intel driver?

Thanks,

Michael/
 
Hi,

Edit the xorg.conf file (normally found in /etc/X11/) and look for:

Code: 
Section "Device"
...
Driver "vesa"
...
EndSection

Replace "vesa" (I assume "vesa" but it may be another driver) with "intel", save and run startx.

If you can't find an xorg.conf file, create one by running startx -configure and copy the file created to /etc/X11/.

Note that there are a few issues with the intel driver (in terms of supported hardware). Have a look around the forum if you cannot make it work.
 
I already enabled the intel driver but that is what causes the error message of 'cannot find screen'. As soon as I revert this back to vesa Xorg starts. Is it anything to do with that I used the binary packages to do the install of Xorg rather than ports?

Michael.
 
You need to provide more information. What model of graphic card do you have?

Please, show the output of pciconf -lvv | grep -C 4 -a VGA

Also I recommend you to read attentively the wiki Intel GPU page.
 
michlaustn said:
Is there any way to have it without rebuilding? My machine is pretty slow so builds take a considerable amount of time.
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I don't think so, unless someone has built packages for it.
 
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