No devices detected when running startx

Bob Willcox bob at immure.com
Wed Mar 14 03:09:38 UTC 2018


Thanks Johannes, I will try this out tomorrow when I get into the office.

Bob

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:14:35PM +0000, Johannes Lundberg wrote:
> 
> Bob Willcox writes:
> 
> > I have updated my 12.0 current system to 330866 today and am trying to get X
> > to run again. I had been running the drm-next version for sometime now and
> > since the drm-next-kmod port had been merged into the ports tree and it had
> > been almost a year since I last updated this system I thought it would be wise
> > to update.
> >
> > Unfortunately it's not been going well so far. I rebuilt and installed the
> > latest kernel, updated all the ports, and installed the graphics/drm-next-kmod
> > port but still no joy.
> >
> 
> Hi
> 
> Sorry to hear that. We do need to improve the documentation and
> instructions.
> 
> What does 'kldstat -v' say? The kernel modules from ports are installed to
> /boot/modules and it is common that the old version that comes with the
> kernel in /boot/kernel is loaded instead.
> 
> There are several ways to make sure that the correct modules are
> loaded. I put this in my /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> module_path="/boot/modules;/boot/dtb;/boot/overlays"
> 
> This will make sure that modules are loaded from /boot/modules first,
> and then /boot/kernel if they are not found in the first locations.
> 
> To load modules automatically, put in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> kld_list="/boot/modules/drm.ko /boot/modules/i915kms.ko"
> 
> or simply
> 
> kld_list="i915kms"
> 
> if you specified module_path.
> 
> 
> >
> > My system is an Intel NUC with this hardware configuration:
> >
> > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5557U CPU @ 3.10GHz (3092.91-MHz K8-class CPU)
> >   Origin="GenuineIntel"  Id=0x306d4  Family=0x6  Model=0x3d  Stepping=4
> >   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> >   Features2=0x7ffafbbf<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,SDBG,FMA,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND>
> >   AMD Features=0x2c000800<SYSCALL,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
> >   AMD Features2=0x121<LAHF,ABM,Prefetch>
> >   Structured Extended Features=0x21c27ab<FSGSBASE,TSCADJ,BMI1,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,NFPUSG,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,PROCTRACE>
> >   XSAVE Features=0x1<XSAVEOPT>
> >   VT-x: (disabled in BIOS) PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID
> >   TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
> > real memory  = 17179869184 (16384 MB)
> > avail memory = 16482922496 (15719 MB)
> >
> >
> > Here's what I get in the Xorg.0.log file when I run startx:
> >
> > [    49.100] (EE) No devices detected.                                                                                                                          
> > [    49.101] (EE)                                                                                                                                               
> > Fatal server error:                                                                                                                                             
> > [    49.101] (EE) no screens found(EE)                                                                                                                          
> > [    49.101] (EE)                                                                                                                                               
> > Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support                                                                                                                 
> >          at http://wiki.x.org                                                                                                                                   
> >  for help.                                                                                                                                                      
> > [    49.101] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.                                                           
> > [    49.101] (EE)                                                                                                                                               
> > [    49.101] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.                                                                                           
> >
> >
> > My devices section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf is this:
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >         Identifier  "Card0"
> >         Driver      "intel"
> >         BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
> > EndSection
> >
> > and the 'pciconf -lv' ouput for the graphics adapter is:
> >
> > vgapci0 at pci0:0:2:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x20578086 chip=0x162b8086 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
> >     device     = 'Iris Graphics 6100'
> >     class      = display
> >     subclass   = VGA
> >
> > My 'uname -a' output:
> >
> > FreeBSD tavion.austin.ibm.com 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #1 r330866: Tue Mar 13 15:26:12 CDT 2018     bob at tavion.austin.ibm.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/TAVION  amd64
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is my workstation in the office
> > and I really need X Windows to work.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bob

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