gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next

[Bob Willcox]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 07:42:39PM -0700, Pete Wright wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/28/16 6:40 PM, Bob Willcox wrote:
> 
> >
> > Well, I may have spoken a little too soon. I switched monitors (from a
> > 1920x1080 Dell to a 2560x1440 Dell) and installed vlc (with a number of
> > dependencies) and now X won't start up for my ID any longer (still works for
> > root). In case it may help, below is my latest Xorg.0.log file. For some
> > reason the intel driver isn't working.  Note the line:
> >
> > (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
> >
> > And then it trys fbdev, which also fails due to a problem with fbdevhw. Anyone
> > have any idea what may be wrong?
> >
> 
> 
> interesting - are you specifically calling fbdev in your xorg.conf? 
> this is an unaccelerated driver i think, which leads me to believe that 
> the xf86-intel driver is not working for some reason.

No, I don't believe I have an xorg.conf file anywhere on the system. I have
searched for one to check this, but the closest thing I can find is and empty
/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory.

> 
> 
> what is the version of your xf86-intel driver?  this is the version i am 
> using with my skylake system:
> 
> $ pkg info -f xf86-video-intel-2.99.917.20160614
> xf86-video-intel-2.99.917.20160614
> Name           : xf86-video-intel
> Version        : 2.99.917.20160614
> Installed on   : Thu Jul 28 18:45:42 2016 PDT
> Origin         : x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel
> Architecture   : freebsd:12:x86:64
> <snip>

Mine looks to be the same as yours:

bob at padme:0 /var/log> pkg info -f xf86-video-intel
xf86-video-intel-2.99.917.20160614
Name           : xf86-video-intel
Version        : 2.99.917.20160614
Installed on   : Thu Sep 22 09:43:13 2016 CDT
Origin         : x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel
Architecture   : freebsd:12:x86:64

> 
> 
> also this is the relevant section of my xorg for reference:
> 
> Section "Device"
>          Identifier  "Card0"
>          Driver      "intel"
>          Option     "TearFree" "true"
>          BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
> EndSection

Since I didn't have an xorg.conf file, I created one (via 'Xorg -configure')
which got me past the problem with the intel driver. However I still couldn't
get X to start. So I then started scrutinizing my .xinitrc file and I
discovered two things that appear to have been causing problems.

First was that I was setting 'DISPLAY=$HOSTNM:0.0' where $HOSTNM was the first
element of the system's host name and the second was that my old .xinitrc file
didn't have this line at the end:

exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login

as the xinitrc file in /usr/local/etc/X11/xinit does.

I have no problem removing the DISPLAY variable setting (I have no memory of
why I had it there...that was YEARS ago that I did it), but the exec'ing of
the xterm bothers me. I don't understand why it's now required, and I can't
say that I like it (if I exit the xterm X terminates, most annoying).

Any ideas why this is now needed and if there is a way to get rid of it?

Thanks,
Bob

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