Dell E7250 running i5-5300U and HD Graphics 5500... i cannot get X to load without the scfb driver. intel and vesa both don't work. does anyone have this chipset, or anyone have any suggestions? i saw one fellow was able to load by adding his device id into the kernel, do i need to do something similar? i have tried 11-RELEASE, 11-STABLE, and 12-CURRENT.

i loaded up trueOS to find out if that would load X alright, and it seemed to...

please provide any tips. i also don't mind running scfb if i can change the blasted resolution. everytime i try


it tells me --mode must be used after --output and i can't find which output i am on

Just type xrandr and it will tell you your output. That is the wrong syntax. On a laptop it would usually be:
Or whatever you want your res to be. Sorry about the X problem though, I don't use FreeBSD nor use scfb or that chipset.

i'm thinking of putting freebsd back on there with zfs + geli. any experience with geli?

Nah I have never used it.