Black screen with Vesa on Dell Intel graphics amd64

[Lundberg, Johannes]

Ok, it seems like the problem is with the VESA driver. I installed
11-CURRENT and successfully can use X with Intel driver and KMS + NEW_XORG.

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Johannes Lundberg
BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD.


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Lundberg, Johannes <
johannes at brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have now installed 10.0-RC5 on this Dell desktop with HD2000 graphics
> but still the same problem. I have attached various logs with this mail.
>
> The screen is just black with a few pixel in lower left corner flickering
> in R G B (with VESA driver and default or none xorg.conf)
>
> Xorg, xterm etc seems to be running fine, except I can't see anything..
>
> I guess next thing would be to try 11-current with intel driver and see if
> that works better.. I will also try another display and see how it goes.
> The display works fine with other systems and the console so I can't
> believe that's the problem...
>
>
> --
> Johannes Lundberg
> BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <
> jean-sebastien.pedron at dumbbell.fr> wrote:
>
>> On 24.12.2013 02:36, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
>> > Hi
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> > Thanks for the feedback. With Intel driver X doesn't start at all. I can
>> > look into this more later but for now Vesa will do fine for my needs.
>>
>> Yes, when you have time, please post the output of dmesg (after a
>> verbose boot) and your Xorg.log.
>>
>> > The thing is, the screen is just black with the Vesa driver and I can't
>> > return to console.
>> > The window manager and X seems to be running fine if I log in with ssh
>> > and run "top".
>>
>> Can you try (from ssh) to run components one by one, for instance:
>>     1. from one shell, start "Xorg"
>>     2. from another shell, run "DISPLAY=:0 xterm"
>>
>> And see if something show up?
>>
>> > The almost exact same setup but freebsd10-i386 and Intel HD4000, not
>> > freebsd10-amd64 and Intel HD2000, works fine with Vesa driver.
>> >
>> > Is there some problem with running X with amd64 compared to i386 version
>> > that I should be aware of?
>>
>> I believe that amd64 is tested a lot more than i386 nowadays (note that
>> it's just a feeling, not a fact). I'm not aware of any problems with
>> X.Org+amd64 which never occur on i386.
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>>
>>
>

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