Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 07:06:39 +0000 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> To: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DRM and higher screen resolutions on older hardware for current/13-ALPHA3 Message-ID: <8C5F8699-66B2-454E-81C4-3433B7C24767@iitbombay.org> In-Reply-To: <CAKr6gn1XF_KOmX8Y%2B57c-68FObUKSTZ%2BhmCZXZR%2B2JgXtj0jmQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKr6gn1XF_KOmX8Y%2B57c-68FObUKSTZ%2BhmCZXZR%2B2JgXtj0jmQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Feb 5, 2021, at 6:09 AM, George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> wrote: > > I have a Lenovo Edge 420 with the ATI/Radeon graphics card. > > The "this .ko, that blob" thing is really confusing if you've been out > of the loop for a while, and with older hardwar (its 8+ year old > laptop) its not impossible its fallen off the curve of available .ko > drivers. > > Anyone have any practical guidance to which radeon.ko I want to load? > Not seeing valid Xorg with any of them and finding 640x480 tiresome. In rc.conf I have kld_list="ig4 iichid amdgpu" Replace amdgpu with radeonkms. It will in turn load various radeon*_bin.ko modules for firmware. I don't have this card so this is just a guess (I am running 13.0-ALPHA3). Compile /usr/ports/graphics/drm-fbsd13-kmod at the same time as the kernel by adding PORTS_MODULES=graphics/drm-fbsd13-kmod PORTS_MODULES+=graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod to /etc/src.conf. AFAIK installing a package won't work. I need ig4 and iichid drivers for the touchpad.
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