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[88.105.96.80]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n4sm10918043wrt.47.2021.02.04.23.22.33 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 04 Feb 2021 23:22:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: DRM and higher screen resolutions on older hardware for current/13-ALPHA3 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: From: Graham Perrin Message-ID: <6aed89b6-d1c6-27e7-df12-91c72d25f004@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 07:22:32 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-GB X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4DX6M00zpwz4cLL X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=f4wcO2dC; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of grahamperrin@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:4864:20::433 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=grahamperrin@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.78 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2a00:1450:4000::/36:c]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.78)[-0.776]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[88.105.96.80:received]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::433:from]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2a00:1450::/32, country:US]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20161025]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-current@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::433:from:127.0.2.255]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::433:from]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-current] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 07:22:37 -0000 On 05/02/2021 06:09, George Michaelson wrote: > I have a Lenovo Edge 420 with the ATI/Radeon graphics card. Please, which card, exactly? This utility can help to gather useful information: sysutils/hw-probe A recent probe of my own notebook (with Radeon hardware), but please note that it's not a 2018 model, it's more like 2013: > 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 most cases, it should suffice to edit your rc.conf as described at . If you have not already done so, try installing: x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati Exceptionally ============= % grep -B 1 kld_list /etc/rc.conf # The system may fail to present sddm if kld_list is set to # load radeonkms -- instead, load drm kld_list="cuse fusefs drm" # kld_list="/boot/modules/drm.ko" # kld_list="amdgpu" # kld_list="/boot/modules/radeonkms.ko" # kld_list="radeonkms" %