VESA X11 drivers non-functional after recent update

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2014, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> El día Wednesday, December 24, 2014 a las 11:13:55AM -0500, Eric McCorkle escribió:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a laptop with an Optimus setup with haswell graphics and an nvidia card.  As none of this is currently supported, I had been using the VESA drivers.  However, the VESA driver no longer functions after I updated ports yesterday (most likely connected to the removal of old x11).
>>
>> I don't have the specific error message as I'm typing this on another device, but it seems that the driver can't access the bios (messages include "cannot read V_BIOS", neither device reports a bios segment, etc).
>>
>> Is there something I can do to restore the VESA drivers to a functioning state (or alternatively, any sort of development haswell driver I can use), or is the only option to revert the ports directory and rebuild everything?
>
> (Note: I do not have this problem and I can not help to solve it. I'm
> only interested in your problem and its solution because I'm thinking to
> acquire a netbook with haswell and do need the VESA driver too in this
> case).
>
> I've checked the SVN
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/UPDATING?view=log and the blog
> pointed to by the information in UPDATING
> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/2014/11/19/xserver-1-14-update-ready/
> I do not see any information about droping VESA support.

The AIGLX default changed, though.  Try

Option "AIGLX" "Off"

In the ServerLayout section.