On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 20:46:17 -0500 Ron Georgia <[email protected]> wrote:
> All, > Here is my dmesg for my machine: https://pastebin.com/RdmGu29k > Here is my Xorg.0.log: https://pastebin.com/xQw4rwsx > > clement$ uname -a > NetBSD clement.ronverbs.dev 8.0 NetBSD 8.0 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Jul 17 > 14:59:51 UTC 2018 > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC > amd64 > > I installed NetBSD 8.0, using the UEFI install image. Install went > smoothly; however, the video driver fails. I did X -configure and > copied the resulting xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf... but > that fails as well. The driver is intel. > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "intel" > BusID "PCI:0:2:0" > EndSection > > If I change the driver to "wsfb" it works, but only with 800x600 > resolution. I tried to build the xf86-video-wsfb driver from source > but got the following error: > > Package dependency requirement 'randrproto >= 1.6.0' could not be > satisfied. Package 'randrproto' has version '1.5.0', required version > is '>= 1.6.0' > Honestly, I am not sure how to upgrade randrproto. What's in pkgsrc > is version 1.5.0. > > I did install NetBSD 8.99.30 and the video worked perfectly. > Maybe two question then: > > How do I update randrproto? > Or, how do I pull in the video drivers used by NetBSD current? > > Ron Georgia > “90% of my problems are due to ignorance, the other 10% is because I > just don’t know any better.” > Maybe NetBSD-8 does not support your graphics card? Why not just run NetBSD-current if that works with your card?
