On 12/20/11 03:05, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote:
On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote:
I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't
come across a satisfactory answer.
I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm
trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to
load fbdev because there is no data module.
I try uninstalling fbdev and running a rebuild of xorg- its still
using the builtin configuration and still can't load fbdev. No
devices detected.
I run Xorg -configure, and it shows the radeon card fine, 2
displays. Still working with the config file, but it seems fine.
correction - its dual display issue that I've never had trouble with
before (I also have installed on a HTPC with same memory, phenom quad
core, uses a radeon HD card and a NVidia HD card). And no, the Xorg
-config /root/xorg.conf.new [-retro] doesn't work as it is locking up
and I can't even ctl-alt-backspace, I have to acpi power off to shut
the system down. Google's still not giving me any hope... :( Last
time I came across this level of issue was with a solo vintage intel
card on yet another laptop- it froze the system too.
BTW, who says multicard vga is rare?
Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one
from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching
between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may
be a BIOS option to disable one or the other. There should still be
two video outputs.
More than one video card at a time is a different issue, which is also
unsupported on FreeBSD AFAIK:
(WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support
It appears that it is something that needs to be resolved pretty quickly
then. The linux guys jumped on it quick as (I'm not ribbing by the way)
- probably their guys came across it sooner than BSD users.
What has thrown me is the fact that I didn't even consider it as a
problem because I already had installed on a dual video system- ATI card
and NVidia onboard, both that will work on a linux system, and that FBSD
has no problem like this either; it just works. Weird...
So what are my options then? I have 2 high performance cards I can't
use? VESA is not exactly an exciting solution - or secure: it somehow
retains the image displayed in memory, and shows it as it loads up X the
next time.
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