Re: Which X driver to use for genfb?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

I'm running amd64.

For me, debugging the X code is just to much detail.  I was hoping 
someone might have tried it before...

:)


On Sun, 27 Jul 2014, Robert Swindells wrote:

> Paul Goyette wrote:
> > After much assistance, I've finally got my new Gateway box running.  Now
> > I need to get X windows up.
> >
> > The machine has an E1-2500 processor, and claims "Radeon HD 8240"
> > on-board graphics.  However, booting a GENERIC kernel gives this dmesg:
> >
> > genfb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x9838 (rev.0x00)
> > genfb0: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, size 800x600, depth 32, stride 3328
> > wsdisplay0 at genfb0 ...
>
> [snip]
>
> > Any hint on how to proceed?
>
> Put some debug in xf86-video-vesa to find out why it doesn't work ?
>
> Are you running NetBSD/amd64 or NetBSD/i386 ?
>
> You could try hacking the PCI ID for the GPU into xf86-video-ati in
> xsrc but you will still just get a dumb framebuffer.
>
> Robert Swindells
>
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