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Date:      Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:00:54 +0200
From:      Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se>
To:        Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: amdgpu on Ryzen 4700 w. Vega10 Renoir Graphics
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On 2020-07-23 10:53, Michael Schuster wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 10:51 AM Niclas Zeising 
> <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se <mailto:zeising%2Bfreebsd@daemonic.se>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2020-07-23 09:43, Michael Schuster wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 8:54 AM Michael Schuster
>      > <michaelsprivate@gmail.com <mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com>
>     <mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com
>     <mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >     On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 8:35 AM Michael Schuster
>      >     <michaelsprivate@gmail.com <mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com>
>     <mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com
>     <mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >         good morning,
>      >
>      >         On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 8:50 PM Michael Schuster
>      >         <michaelsprivate@gmail.com
>     <mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com> <mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com
>     <mailto:michaelsprivate@gmail.com>>>
>      >         wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      >                   more - I'm hoping for your guidance :-)
>      >
>      >                 It would be interesting to see why make install in
>      >                 drm-devel-kmod failed
>      >                 and you had to copy the modules yourself.
>      >
>      >
>      >             I've already turned off the laptop for the day. If
>     you like,
>      >             I'll re-build it with "script" as soon as I get round
>     to it,
>      >             so I don't have to guess.
>      >
>      >
>      >         after 'make clean deinstall', 'make install' succeeded (I
>      >         verified the dates on /boot/modules/*ko). I probably had it
>      >         coming ;-)
>      >
>      >         anyway, X still doesn't start ;-(
>      >
>      >
>      >                   From the output you've pasted, it looks like
>     amdgpu.ko
>      >                 didn't load and
>      >                 attach properly to the hardware.  What does dmesg say
>      >                 when you load the
>      >                 module?
>      >
>      >
>      >             I'll supply that too with the make output.
>      >
>      >
>      >         this is all I can find related either to drm or amdgpu:
>      >           [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled.
>      >         are we looking for some specific pattern?
>      >
>      >         Xorg.0.log looks much the same a I posted last night.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >         thx!
>      >         Michael
>      >
>      >
>      >                 Have you done any xorg configuration?
>      >
>      >
>      >             No.
>      >
>      >
>      >     actually, I probably need to correct that statement: I didn't do
>      >     anything by hand; I *did* run mkdesktop though right after
>     installation.
>      >
>      >
>      > While reading Manish's email on mkdesktop, this occurred to me: do I
>      > need any of the linux-compatibility packages/kmods/... ? I
>     declined to
>      > install either Wine or Linuxulator, was that a mistake?
>      > ISTR that I have some linux-related items in the kld_list on a
>     different
>      > laptop running GhostBSD, but since these two machines are roughly 15
>      > years apart, age-wise, I hesitate to draw conclusions ... :-)
> 
>     Hi!
>     Apologies if I've missed any e-mails or been slow to answer.
>     The Linux compat layer, also calle dthe linuxolator or similar, is only
>     needed if you want to run Linux binaries on your FreeBSD system.  It is
>     different from the Linux KPI that the graphics drivers use.
>     Likewise, wine is only needed if you want to run Windows
>     applications in it.
> 
> 
> no worries ;-) - thx.
> so I guess I need the linux KPI Modules - do they have to be put in the 
> kld_list in /etc/rc.conf explicitly, or are they somehow implicit?
> 

They are loaded implicitly by the graphics drivers.
Regards
-- 
Niclas


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