UEFI Xorg (EE) no screens found on FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE

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Tomasz CEDRO

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Jan 4, 2017, 9:48:24 AM1/4/17
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Hello!

I have noticed that I cannot use Xorg anymore on UEFI box with 11.0-RELEASE.
I get (EE) no screens found, before Xorg terminates.
X Server 1.17.4 (RELEASE 2015-10-28).

This happens on my new HYPERBOOK SL502VR (P650RP6-G) with nVidia
GTX1060 and INTEL and VESA does not finding any screen.

This also happens on VirtualBox when system is installed with UEFI enabled.

I had no problem starting X on a BIOS box with no UEFI.

Any hints on how to make it work? :-)

Tomek

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Tomasz CEDRO

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Jan 4, 2017, 11:09:14 AM1/4/17
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On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Tomasz CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> wrote:
> I have noticed that I cannot use Xorg anymore on UEFI box with 11.0-RELEASE.
> I get (EE) no screens found, before Xorg terminates.
> X Server 1.17.4 (RELEASE 2015-10-28).

Some clue: DO NOT USE VESA DRIVER! USE SCFB ON UEFI HARDWARE :-)

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/SCFB

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics

Still, would be nice to get at least Intel working, nVidia would be perfect! :-)

Tomasz CEDRO

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Jan 4, 2017, 11:26:04 AM1/4/17
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On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Tomasz CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> wrote:
> Some clue: DO NOT USE VESA DRIVER! USE SCFB ON UEFI HARDWARE :-)

Although SCFB driver did some switch I have black screen both on
laptop and virtualbox..

Tomasz CEDRO

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Jan 4, 2017, 11:55:01 AM1/4/17
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On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Tomasz CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> wrote:
> Although SCFB driver did some switch I have black screen both on
> laptop and virtualbox..

It was some stuff loading really long in the background. After
recreating the setup it works!

You can use `Xorg -configure` then replace vesa with scfb and move cfg
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

USE SCFB ON UEFI HARDWARE INSTEAD VESA AS FALLBACK! :-)

Tomasz CEDRO

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Jan 4, 2017, 12:22:29 PM1/4/17
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On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Tomasz CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> wrote:
> USE SCFB ON UEFI HARDWARE INSTEAD VESA AS FALLBACK! :-)

this also only works as root.. :\
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