no X on a machine with onboard video

[Antonio Olivares]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 6:10 PM Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 1:51 PM Antonio Olivares
> <olivares14031 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> I now have X.  Using vesa, screensize is very big, but it is a start.
> Maybe modifying the lines and Modes adding to Xorg will fix it.
> Thanks to all who have helped me.  I was thinking of giving up and
> inserting a video card on it and hope it just worked.
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Antonio

I will attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see if there are any pointers
that can help alleviate the screen.

Best Regards,


Antonio
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