Re: Video Driver for Intel - resolution stuck at 800x600

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 20:46:17 -0500
Ron Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> All,
> Here is my dmesg for my machine: https://pastebin.com/RdmGu29k
> Here is my Xorg.0.log: https://pastebin.com/xQw4rwsx
> 
> clement$ uname -a
> NetBSD clement.ronverbs.dev 8.0 NetBSD 8.0 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Jul 17
> 14:59:51 UTC 2018
> mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
> amd64
> 
> I installed NetBSD 8.0, using the UEFI install image. Install went
> smoothly; however, the video driver fails. I did X -configure and
> copied the resulting xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf... but
> that fails as well. The driver is intel.
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "intel"
>         BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
> EndSection
> 
> If I change the driver to "wsfb" it works, but only with 800x600
> resolution. I tried to build the xf86-video-wsfb driver from source
> but got the following error:
> 
> Package dependency requirement 'randrproto >= 1.6.0' could not be
> satisfied. Package 'randrproto' has version '1.5.0', required version
> is '>= 1.6.0' 
> Honestly, I am not sure how to upgrade randrproto. What's in pkgsrc
> is version 1.5.0.
> 
> I did install NetBSD 8.99.30 and the video worked perfectly. 
> Maybe two question then:
> 
> How do I update randrproto?
> Or, how do I pull in the video drivers used by NetBSD current?
> 
> Ron Georgia
> “90% of my problems are due to ignorance, the other 10% is because I
> just don’t know any better.” 
> 

Maybe NetBSD-8 does not support your graphics card? Why not just run
NetBSD-current if that works with your card?