no X on a machine with onboard video

[James Cook]

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