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Date:      Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:33:12 +0530
From:      vm finance <vm.finance2@gmail.com>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>,  FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-12.1 on laptop
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Hi,

Its Intel's "UHD Graphics 620". I don't see it installed/loaded under
"kldstat".

Do you think steps mentioned in
http://www.srobb.net/freebsdintel.html

would suffice to get around the issue I have?
If not, could u please suggest next steps.

Pls let me know. Thanks so much!


On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 3:08 PM Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 12:33:33 +0530, vm finance wrote:
> > I also downloaded NVIDIA FreeBSD driver for my laptop and built/make
> > install its driver.
> >
> > When I try to do startx now, its no longer showing Framebuffer
> > error...however it fails with error:
> > (EE) No Screens found (EE)
> >
> > Looks like one step closer...any thoughts on how to fix this?
>
> Can you please check _which_ graphics card your laptop contains?
> Read through
>
>         # pciconf -lv | less
>
> If it's a Thinkpad, it's probably Intel. Depending on model and
> age of the Thinkpad, as I said, it might be possible that you
> don't need the DRM stuff at all.
>
> Again, verify that you have the driver _for X_ installed, which
> for Intel GPUs is xf86-video-intel. This to make sure that X is
> not missing an essential component.
>
>
> --
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
>



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