Re: No X on Dell E6540

From: Michael B. Eichorn <ike_at_michaeleichorn.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:15:18 -0500
On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 12:57 +0100, Carsten Kunze wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> X does not start.  For the error message I get (Number of created
> screens does not match number of detected devices) there are many
> posts on https://forums.freebsd.org but this URL seems to not work
> currently.  Xorg log is (for dmesg see below):

The freebsd forums require a browser that supports modern tls versions.

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> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4300M CPU _at_ 2.60GHz (2594.04-MHz K8-class
> CPU)
[snip]
> agp0: <Haswell mobile GT2> on vgapci1
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It looks like that is a machine with Haswell integrated graphics.
Haswell graphics has not yet landed in CURRENT but there is a
development branch availible for testing.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Update%20i915%20GPU%20driver%20to%20L
inux%203.8
Received on Tue Dec 15 2015 - 12:15:30 UTC

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