X -configure fails on NetBSD: Number of created screens does not ...

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Hello, my system is NetBSD 6.1.5 on AMD64.

'X -configure' prints following message:

"Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices"

Only motherboard's on-board graphic is using.

xorg.conf.new

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/X11R7/lib/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "dri2"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "shadow"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "wsmouse"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
        ### <percent>: "<f>%"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "BusType"                # [<str>]
        #Option     "CPPIOMode"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CPusecTimeout"          # <i>
        #Option     "AGPMode"                # <i>
        #Option     "AGPFastWrite"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AGPSize"                # <i>
        #Option     "GARTSize"               # <i>
        #Option     "RingSize"               # <i>
        #Option     "BufferSize"             # <i>
        #Option     "EnableDepthMoves"       # [<bool>]
        #Option     "EnablePageFlip"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoBackBuffer"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DMAForXv"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FBTexPercent"           # <i>
        #Option     "DepthBits"              # <i>
        #Option     "PCIAPERSize"            # <i>
        #Option     "AccelDFS"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "IgnoreEDID"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CustomEDID"             # [<str>]
        #Option     "DisplayPriority"        # [<str>]
        #Option     "PanelSize"              # [<str>]
        #Option     "ForceMinDotClock"       # <freq>
        #Option     "ColorTiling"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreCrystal"     # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreTunerPort"     # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreCompositePort"     # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreSVideoPort"     # <i>
        #Option     "TunerType"              # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocPath"     # <str>
        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocType"     # <str>
        #Option     "ScalerWidth"            # <i>
        #Option     "RenderAccel"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SubPixelOrder"          # [<str>]
        #Option     "ClockGating"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VGAAccess"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ReverseDDC"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "LVDSProbePLL"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AccelMethod"            # <str>
        #Option     "DRI"                    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ConnectorTable"         # <str>
        #Option     "DefaultConnectorTable"     # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultTMDSPLL"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVDACLoadDetect"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ForceTVOut"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVStandard"             # <str>
        #Option     "IgnoreLidStatus"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultTVDACAdj"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Int10"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "EXAVSync"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ATOMTVOut"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "R4xxATOM"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ForceLowPowerMode"      # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DynamicPM"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NewPLL"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ZaphodHeads"            # <str>
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

/var/log/Xorg.0.log on pastebin

Thanks.

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The relevant lines from the log file all begin with (EE). Here they are:

[  2560.459] (EE) No devices detected.
[  2560.459]
Fatal server error:
[  2560.459] no screens found
[  2560.459]

So it's not just finding not enough screens, it's finding none at all.

What's your graphics card / chipset?

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lspci on linux:

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS740 [Radeon 2100]

"lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12" on linux:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS740 [Radeon 2100] [1002:796e] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2615]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at feaf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Memory at fe900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon

Is this problem related to BIOS settings?

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It's unlikely to be a BIOS problem.

Comment out this line:

BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"

Unless you have more than one card that may be more specific than needed.

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I commented that line and ran [X -config xorg.conf.new], The result was that the monitor is turned off and don't show anything and none of CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE & CTRL-ALT-F1 don't worked. Then I changed

Driver      "radeon"

to

Driver      "vesa"

and ran mentioned command which get a blank x screen with mouse cursor in the form of big X, but no Window Manager, i haven't ~/.xinitrc.

I will be back 8/9h later.

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Have you tried just not giving X a config file? It can autodetect fairly well these days.

VESA is a decent driver to fall back on if Radeon can't be convinced to work.

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I copied xorg.conf.new as either xorg.conf to "/etc/X11/" and ran [startx], The result was that the x display screen with TWM was performed, but I don't think "vesa" be a good alternative for "radeon" driver.

newer /var/log/Xorg.0.log after the changes made:

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It's not hardware-accelerated, no.

Wasn't the RS740 from 2008? I wonder if support has been dropped. It's based on the R400 chipset.

There are no proprietary ATI drivers for BSD.

this page might be some help.

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