no screens found problem

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Chris H <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:38:44 -0700 David Cohen <dacohen at gmail.com> wrote
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently unable to start graphical environment on freebsd
> > 11.0-RELEASE-p8. Whenever I startx, it gets an error saying "no
> > screens found".
> >
> > I've a RX470 video card using a monitor through HDMI port.
> >
> > Anyone seen this issue?
> Many ppl have seen this issue. It's often a part of getting
> Xorg setup with new hardware. But in order for anyone to
> provide you with some help. You're going to need to help
> them, so they can help you. :-)
> IOW you haven't given us enough information.
> The following information would help greatly:
> the output of uname -a
> the output of your Xorg.0.log
> and maybe the output of svn info /usr/ports
>
> --Chris
> >
> > Br, David
>

The lines for the video card in pclconf -lv might also be useful.
% pciconf -lv | grep -A 4 vga
should do the trick.
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