Intel-driver failure after upgrade to 11.0 Release

Bernt Hansson bah at bananmonarki.se
Mon Jan 23 18:27:20 UTC 2017



On 2017-01-23 16:43, Kenneth Hatteland wrote:
> Upgraded from 10.3 til 11.0 release using the procedure for 
> Freebsd-Update given with the release announcement.
>
> When restarting and starting up X, the monitor switches off and claims 
> there is no signal. I have done no changes from the functioning 10.3 
> installation other than upgrading.
>
> When I switch to Vesa driver i get X up and running and the machine 
> performs as usual, but with poor graphic quality as you would expect 
> from Vesa.
>
>
> Google have given me no clues yet, and there does not seem to have 
> been changes in the Intel driver for 11.0 release as far as I have 
> been able to find out.
>
> The machine is a standard Dell Optiplex 960 SFF that has run at least 
> the whole FreeBSD 10.x range, possibly 9.3 flawlessly with the 
> standard x11 intel driver.
>
>
> Does anybody have a clue what hinders me from using the intel driver 
> succesfully ?
>
> I can provide file outputs if needed.
>
>
> Blessed be,
>
> Kenneth Hatteland, Norway
I've had some trouble with xorg, this is on 10.3, the screen went black 
but after a while the led on the monitor started to slowly flash
like it was in sleep mode or something. so I added this to /etc/rc.conf 
dbus_enable="YES"

Now it works.


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