VESA X11 drivers non-functional after recent update

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, December 24, 2014 a las 11:13:55AM -0500, Eric McCorkle escribió:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a laptop with an Optimus setup with haswell graphics and an nvidia card.  As none of this is currently supported, I had been using the VESA drivers.  However, the VESA driver no longer functions after I updated ports yesterday (most likely connected to the removal of old x11).
> 
> I don't have the specific error message as I'm typing this on another device, but it seems that the driver can't access the bios (messages include "cannot read V_BIOS", neither device reports a bios segment, etc).
> 
> Is there something I can do to restore the VESA drivers to a functioning state (or alternatively, any sort of development haswell driver I can use), or is the only option to revert the ports directory and rebuild everything?

(Note: I do not have this problem and I can not help to solve it. I'm
only interested in your problem and its solution because I'm thinking to
acquire a netbook with haswell and do need the VESA driver too in this
case).

I've checked the SVN
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/UPDATING?view=log and the blog
pointed to by the information in UPDATING
http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/2014/11/19/xserver-1-14-update-ready/
I do not see any information about droping VESA support.

Do you run Xorg with or without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? What are
the messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

	matthias

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