Problems trying to run X on Intel DH77DF System

Kevin Oberman kob6558 at gmail.com
Sun May 27 17:02:46 UTC 2012


On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a new Intel DH77DF mini-ITX motherboard with a Core i5 3550 CPU and am
> having trouble getting X to run. This is on a 9-STABLE system just updated
> today via cvsup. There appear to be two obvious problems: the first is that X
> will no longer start (it used to with about a two week older 9-stable build);
> and the second is that once I attempt to start X I seem to lose the console.
> I'm left with a blue screen and am unable to switch to any other console
> (neither Alt-Fx nor Ctl-Alt-Fx do anything). The system is, however, still
> running as I can login via the network.
>
> My 'uname -a' output is this:
>
> FreeBSD yoda 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #4: Fri May 25 20:36:02 CDT 2012     bob at yoda:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/YODA  amd64
>
> I have attached my dmesg output, a copy of my xorg.conf file, and the output
> of 'pciconf -vl'.
>
> Anyone have any idea of what's going wrong, or what I can do to get X to work
> on this system?

Are you using the KMS driver  (WITH_NEW_XORG)?
Can you provide the Xorg.log?

As far as vty switching, that is yet to be implemented with KMS.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com


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