re: Ivy Bridge graphics

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> The X server from 6.0's xsrc doesn't seem to like my Ivy Bridge
> integrated graphics or my nvidia card on a 6.0 kernel or a 6.99.15
> kernel: startx fails with
> 
>    (EE) No devices detected.
> 
>    Fatal screen error:
>    no screens found
> 
> `dmesg | grep -i vga | grep -v acpi' gives:
> 
>    vendor 0x10de product 0x0ffc (VGA display, revision 0xa1) at pci1 dev 0 
> function 0 not configured
>    vga0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x0166 (rev. 0x09)
>    wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
>    drm at vga0 not configured
> 
> I imagine that part of the issue is just that none of the device lists
> in drm(4), xf86-video-intel, and xf86-video-nv -- or at least the
> versions we have in (x)src -- know about these particular devices, but
> I haven't investigated further.
> 
> Is it likely that tracking down the lists and adding the device ids to
> them won't get me very far without magic in the newer KMS/DRM code we
> don't have yet, or would it be worthwhile to spend an afternoon
> messing with this, or am I barking up the wrong tree entirely?

you'll have to use 'vesa' driver.

newer nvidia is no longer supported by the "nv" driver, and their
explicit support message is "use vesa".


yeah -- we need drm support for both of these.


.mrg.