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
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