From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Dec 25 09:22:00 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6151349BA5 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2018 09:21:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8FF286CC35 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2018 09:21:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1545729719; x=1548321719; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=1c/m2lCJXratj5ZTetg9c95E5e5WHds4VccLiUL+cjw=; b=l7OkSiqnS37kKtnap7FJs2BDO4v+v+XjzRb0Fpb2mcm3PIzr9cwOvAVVIMZPo6IK2m/wn/u7MdUGozRlcaBhYVLh8OoUBBYS0ArUmijDEGBKZ6926KRmrQO4PNVPozV3Os3JZ8zmtoPG6BqFxK9YBBWl7SJrw4sbt+c0do+1lOw= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xYTEwMDAwMDMxYzNiNjEuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r2.sg.in.socketlabs.com (r2.sg.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.179.12]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Tue, 25 Dec 2018 03:21:41 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r2.sg.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Tue, 25 Dec 2018 03:21:41 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.91 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1gbhy5-000A7y-Vy; Tue, 25 Dec 2018 08:21:38 +0000 Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 08:21:37 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about graphics subsystems under FreeBSD Message-Id: <20181225082137.135508fe323592e024c0b4e5@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <5616c0b9-9b3c-06d1-0848-ae164c19edd8@dreamchaser.org> References: <55b5d06209acb007b2f4f9a4052e77b7@kathe.in> <9b658246-ea2c-254a-fc83-5eb81ea6e53c@yandex.com> <5616c0b9-9b3c-06d1-0848-ae164c19edd8@dreamchaser.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 8FF286CC35 X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=l7OkSiqn; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.71 / 15.00]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[mxbh.socketlabs.com,mxbsg.socketlabs.com]; FORGED_SENDER(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; IP_SCORE(-0.21)[ip: (-0.53), ipnet: 142.0.176.0/22(-0.26), asn: 7381(-0.20), country: US(-0.08)]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.997,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.51)[0.513,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.998,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; FORGED_SENDER_VERP_SRS(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[198.176.0.142.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.15.0]; ENVFROM_VERP(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 09:22:00 -0000 On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:13:46 -0700 Gary Aitken wrote: > There are a boatload of additional radeonkmsfw_*.ko modules in /boot, but > I don't know how they are used. My attempt to use a radeon 5550 board > hung the system (11.2) on exit; haven't had time to look at it. The right ones are loaded automatically by the main radeonkms driver - at least that's what happens with the amdgpu one. You almost certainly need to compile the drm-kmod port to get things working - installing the package is a recipe for panics IME. I gather that for radeonkms the radeon dri driver works but for amdgpu (my laptop) there's /usr/local/lib/dri/amdgpu_dri.so wanted by Xorg but I can't find it anywhere. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith