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

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 12:36, Ron Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> " 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.

It is very easy. Install from pkgsrc sysutils/sysbuild and
sysutils/sysupgrade and follow the description. Basically you have a
new user - sysbuild - whose home folder contains src and xsrc; I also
make the usual softlinks from /usr/[x]src. By default it creates a
cron job running cvs update overnight; in the morning you can update
the system using sysupgrade. I usually stop the cron job and run the
update manually whenever there is something of interest, perhaps 3-4
times a week. There are a few quirks running -current as opposed to
released or stable version, but in my view they are worth it.
Generally -current has been very reliable for me, the periods when one
cannot build it or there are some other - driver or kernel level -
problems are fairly rare. From time to time you may have to clean the
obj folder as the process doesn't account for all possible changes. I
don't remember the last time I ran build.sh manually; also on the same
machine I do builds for amd64, i386 and evbarm. So far inplace upgrade
with sysutils/sysupgrade hasn't failed for me, and I do it on systems
which I need daily (like the one I use for my invoice issuing
website).

>
> 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?
>
>
>


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