VESA X11 drivers non-functional after recent update

Eric McCorkle eric at metricspace.net
Thu Dec 25 16:37:52 UTC 2014


I'm currently reverting everything (userland and ports) to the status of the repos on Oct 3 (when everything worked for me), in order to do a ZFS snapshot. I will then try updating again and try the AIGLX option.

On December 24, 2014 10:22:34 PM EST, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Dec 2014, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>The AIGLX default changed, though.  Try
>
>Option "AIGLX" "Off"
>
>In the ServerLayout section.

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