Xorg Fails on HP Envy 3D Laptop

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Thomas D. Dean <tomdean at speakeasy.org> wrote:
> I have an HP Envy 3D laptop with 64-bit FreeBSD 8.2-stable.
>
> I upgraded xorg to the latest port version.
>
> startx fails, with error messages.  Searching for this situation results
> in an indication that this device configuration is not supported.
>
> What may I do to help diagnose this problem?

Your only option at the moment is probably vesa. Both the Intel and
radeon drivers require KMS for the latest asics which has not been
ported to freebsd yet.  KMS is also required to use most hybrid
laptops (multiple GPUs).

Alex

>
> tomdean
>
> The laptop seems to have two graphics devices, from /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> <snip>
> (!!) More than one possible primary device found
> (--) PCI: (0:0:2:0) 8086:0126:103c:159b Intel Corporation 2nd Generation
> Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller rev 9, Mem @
> 0xc0000000/4194304, 0xb0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x00004000/64, BIOS @
> 0x????????/65536
> (--) PCI: (0:1:0:0) 1002:68a8:103c:159b ATI Technologies Inc Broadway
> [ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6800 Series] rev 0, Mem @ 0xa0000000/268435456,
> 0xc0700000/131072, I/O @ 0x00003000/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536
>
> <snip>
>
> (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
> (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
> (II) Primary Device is:
> (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
> (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
> (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
> (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
> (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.so
> (EE) LoadModule: Module fbdevhw does not have a fbdevhwModuleData data
> object.
> (II) UnloadModule: "fbdevhw"
> (II) Unloading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.so
> (EE) Failed to load module "fbdevhw" (invalid module, 0)
> (EE) No devices detected.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>         at http://wiki.x.org
>  for help.
> Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
> information.
>
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