no X on a machine with onboard video

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 11:51:58 PST 2021


On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 1:59 PM James Cook <falsifian at falsifian.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:50:33AM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 9:54 AM Antonio Olivares
> > <olivares14031 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 9:53 AM nacho Lariguet <lariguet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:19:24 -0600
> > > > Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 8:55 AM karu.pruun <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hello
> > > > > >
> > > > > > When you boot to console, can you 'kldload radeon' and see if it
> > > > > > works? If yes, then drm/radeon load fine.
> > > > > When I load radeon driver, machine freezes
> > > > > # kldload radeon
> > > > > Had to restart.
> > > > BIOS or uEFI booting ?
> > >
> > > BIOS
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > >
> > >
> > > Antonio
> >
> > I will be away from computer for several days.  It is an old machine,
> > but it worked well.  I may look at getting a pci video card for it, if
> > I cannot get it to work.  I just want for it to work, but I will have
> > to wait for more ideas to troubleshoot this.  Thank you for your help.
> > If there are more suggestions, I will try them when I get back the
> > monday after thanksgiving.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> >
> > Antonio
>
> I have a laptop with unsupported integrated graphics (Intel). I created
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the following content, and now it works, though
> the graphics are not accelerated.
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier "main_graphics_device"
>         Driver "scfb"
> EndSection
>
> (Thanks to daftaupe on IRC for that.)
>
> --
> James

Dear Sir,

Have tried this, and I get:

Fatal Server error:
[13245.821] (EE) no screens found(EE)
 [13245.821](EE)

But thank you for trying to help.

Best Regards,

Antonio


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