emulate a Xorg configuration of GNU/Linux (Fedora 21) on FreeBSD

Xavier Freebsd Questio xavierfreebsdquestio at aim.com
Sun Jan 4 19:22:39 UTC 2015


On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 07:07:16PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:

Hi Polytropon ,

> On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 12:40:46 -0500, Xavier Freebsd Questio via 
freebsd-questions wrote:
> > Curiously, with many GNU/Linux flavours, for example, Fedora 21; it 
get
> > out the image of desktop by default settings to HDMI of TV.
>
> Interesting. What port on the laptop are you using?

HDMI port.

> Is there a "chain of adapters" involved?
>

Not.

> What GPU driver does X use on the Linux system?
>

See Xorg log of GNU/Linux: http://pastebin.com/85Xym8Vs

>
>
> > > > My actual /etc/X11/xorg.conf is:
> > > >
> > > > http://pastebin.com/ji5QgvE6
> > >
> > > The significant parts are:
> > >
> > > Section "Device"
> > >         Identifier  "Card1"
> > >         Driver      "vesa"
> > >         BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Maybe you cannot use VESA together with the limited range
> > > of valid HDMI resolutions...
> > >
> >
> > It is default FreeBSD Xorg configuration generator.
>
> So your GPU wasn't properly detected. Are you sure it
> is supported?
>

In FreeBSD I don't know. I ask for it here.

>
>
> > The problem is: I have an Intel video card, not NVIDIA ...
>
> In that case, the correct driver has to be installed
> and loaded, but the sections could look almost the
> same, except that the Intel GPU driver (and maybe
> specific options) is set.
>
>
>
> > My question is, if with GNU/Linux it show by default configuration,
> > isn't possible in FreeBSD ?
>
> Maybe that Linux uses a different approach to detect
> the GPU and load the driver for X. You can always
> use "pciconf -lv | less" to check for the correct
> identification of the GPU, and then add the correct
> package (for example xf86-video-intel). Then restart
> X and it will probably load the correct driver.

http://pastebin.com/ZBqSx4Sn

http://pastebin.com/uC4ZqNyh

The load driver: http://pastebin.com/aKuxRbkg

>
> Probably you can go without xorg.conf at all when
> the driver is available.

I alredy try it and the same issue.

More ideas ? Thanks.


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