Unable to change to higher resolution

ron georgia

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Jul 12, 2018, 1:51:36 PM7/12/18

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All,
I have a QOTOM Q190G4-S02 Barebone Industrial
4 Gigabit NICs

Graphics: Intel HD Graphics

8Gig Ram

CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J1900 @ 1.99GHz (2000.05-MHz K8-class CPU)

I installed HardenedBSD 11.2-STABLE using UEFI boot.

% uname -a

FreeBSD hardverbs 11.2-STABLE-HBSD FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE-HBSD #0 [STABLE:HardenedBSD-11-STABLE-v1100056]: Wed Jul 4 02:15:08 UTC 2018 ro...@nyi-01.build.hardenedbsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HARDENEDBSD amd64

% freebsd-version

11.2--HBSD

Everything is cool except I cannot get the resolution to 1920x1080. (I installed TrueOS and OpenBSD, both set the resolution to 1920x1080). The current resolution is 1280x1024. From the dmesg I found the following:

% sudo dmesg | grep 1280

[1] VT(efifb): resolution 1280x1024

In the /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory I have a driver-scfb.conf file with the following.

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "kmsdev" # <str>
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "scfb"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

I tried the intel driver, but X would not start.

Thank you in advance

Shawn Webb

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Jul 12, 2018, 1:57:17 PM7/12/18

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For some odd reason, the drm-next-kmod package only works reliably on
12-CURRENT. Give that a shot. Or, there's also drm-stable-kmod. You
could try that before trying 12-CURRENT. Just make sure to uninstall
the drm-next-kmod package before installing drm-stable-kmod.

Because my time is limited, I'm going to need help from the community
in diagnosing why drm-next-kmod doesn't work in HardenedBSD 11-STABLE.

Thanks,

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Ron Georgia

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Jul 12, 2018, 2:43:06 PM7/12/18

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Shawn,

Thank you so much for responding. I will try drm-stable-kmod. I did install 12-CURRENT, but the NICs did not work.
Got a buffer full error. The install script recognized my USB wireless, so I was able to install packages, but
I have my development machines segmented away from my home network; having the NICs working would be a big plus.
Any suggestions on getting the NICs to "work?" Maybe that should be a different post.

Shawn Webb

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Jul 12, 2018, 2:46:01 PM7/12/18

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Great question regarding the NICs. I wonder if Sean Bruno, who I've
now CC'd can help with that.

Thanks,

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Bernard Spil

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Jul 13, 2018, 5:02:34 AM7/13/18

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Hi Shawn, Ron,

I've been looking at the Qotom for a while now, not for its graphics
capabilities but for the 4x Intel I211AT NICs. It is sometimes listed as
a pfSense appliance and should do great as a OPNSense appliance.

Ron: You could try using polling on the NICs, they may work OK when
using polling (so no interrupts). I've used that to work around issues
with a NIC before. https://man.freebsd.org/polling

Cheers, Bernard.

ron georgia

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Jul 19, 2018, 10:20:52 AM7/19/18

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Screen resolution for 11.2 fixed. I changed the BIOS for display from Legacy to UEFI and BAM! I got my resolution.

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