[Bug 255040] Xorg sever terminates with error on 13.0-RELEASE

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--- Comment #7 from jdrch <judahrichardson at gmail.com> ---
> ranting about it to the volunteers trying to help you accomplishes nothing.

The fact that 13.0 was marked RELEASE without stuff like this being checked
for, or that the FreeBSD project thinks routinely building drivers from source
is something 2021 users have any interest in (this isn't Berkeley in 1987)
tells me even attempting to contribute wouldn't make a difference. Poor DE
functionality is literally part of FreeBSD's culture at this point.

Nearly half the respondents to a poll on the FreeBSD forums showed the
community has no interest in proper DE support:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-kommunity-edition.78594/

I've seen project after project that tried to solve this issue fail due to
upstream stonewalling within the FreeBSD project itself: PC-BSD, TrueOS,
Project Trident, FuryBSD, the list goes on and on.

Ergo, the notion that "if you contributed you could make a difference" is
simply misleading. Many have tried and failed. Unless FreeBSD's core developers
take the workstation use case seriously and treat it as a 1st class citizen on
par with what (e.g.) Debian does, this problem will always repeat itself no
matter what I do.

> What is in your dmesg when you boot?

Could you kindly remind me how to retrieve this? I haven't had to do it in a
while.

> You need to update the GPU driver for FreeBSD 13 before you can get any graphical environment going.

The error I posted originally is the result of me downloading the latest
non-DRM driver (the DRM driver does not support my Core 2nd Gen iGPU.)

> Have you updated your packages/ports before after updating to FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE?

Yes, I did.

> There has been a lot of changes in the drm driver between FreeBSD 12 and 13, we are jumping from 4.16 to 5.4.

I imagine so, but I'm using the non-DRM driver.

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