sc vs. vt ?

Niclas Zeising zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se
Fri Jan 25 08:57:48 UTC 2019


On 1/25/19 5:52 AM, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 	I have a system running:
> 
> FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r343080  amd64
> 
> 	using "kern.vty=vt" and drm-legacy-kmod.
> 	I start X (using xf86-video-ati) and find:
> 
> [711318.644] (II) LoadModule: "scfb"
> [711318.644] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module scfb
> [711318.644] (II) UnloadModule: "scfb"
> [711318.644] (II) Unloading scfb
> [711318.644] (EE) Failed to load module "scfb" (module does not exist, 0)
> 
> 	and
> 
> [711318.648] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
> [711318.648] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
> [711318.648] (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
> [711318.648] (--) using VT number 9
> [711318.658] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
> 
> 	Anyone know what's going on, and how I fix it?
> 
> 

Hi!
Can you verify that the kernel module from drm-legacy-kmod is actually 
loaded and attaches to a graphics card?

When you are using drm-legacy-kmod you usually need 
xf86-video-ati-legacy, rather than xf86-video-ati.

Regards
-- 
Niclas


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