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

[Ron Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost>]

" Why not just run NetBSD-current if that works with your card?"
A most excellent question, with a relatively embarrassing answer: I am not sure how to keep NetBSD-current, current. I am part of the NetBSD-current mailing list and read about different issues others are experiencing; however, I do not really know how to update the base OS or apply a particular (suggested) patch. I did read the " Tracking NetBSD-current" page, but it seems confusing to me.

Thank you for responding. I'll try current again.

On 2/1/19, 7:22 AM, "Sad Clouds" <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

    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?