X on RPI2 - which driver

John freebsd-lists at potato.growveg.org
Thu Sep 10 14:47:33 UTC 2015


On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:40:01AM +0100, John wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > On 09/10/15 11:45, John wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > Which xorg drivers work on the rpi2? X -configure just shows vesa
> > > however I've not installed dbus/hal yet.
> > 
> > I think you can use:
> > 
> > xf86-video-scfb
> 
> Thanks for that, I'll try it when hal and friends finish installing.

No dice, I get the following from X -configure

root at potato:~ # X -configure                                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
X.Org X Server 1.14.7                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Release Date: 2014-06-05                                                                                                                                                                                                            
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT arm                                                                                                                                                                                    
Current Operating System: FreeBSD potato.growveg.org 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT 
#0 r286947: Wed Aug 19 18:04:27 MDT 2015     brd at hive.den.so14k.com:/usr/local/raspbsd
/obj/RPI2/obj/arm.armv6/usr/local/raspbsd/src/RPI2/sys/RPI2 arm
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Build Date: 09 September 2015  09:44:10PM                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Current version of pixman: 0.32.6                                                                                                                                                                                                   
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org                                                                                                                                                                          
        to make sure that you have the latest version.                                                                                                                                                                              
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,                                                                                                                                                                  
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,                                                                                                                                                                    
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.                                                                                                                                                               
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Sep 10 15:36:17 2015                                                                                                                                                                
List of video drivers:                                                                                                                                                                                                              
        scfb                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
        fbdev                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
        vesa                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
scfb trace: probe start                                                                                                                                                                                                             
No devices to configure.  Configuration failed.                                                                                                                                                                                     
(EE) Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file.

I'm not sure where to start given it didn't even write a config!

thanks,
-- 
John 


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