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Date:      Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:50:32 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Michael Gass <mgass@csbsju.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New Xorg with vt, radeon, and 10-stable
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.11.1406200948280.68691@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140620145342.GA11837@csbsju.edu>
References:  <20140618231418.GA15764@csbsju.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1406181950110.51000@wonkity.com> <20140619140226.GB11623@csbsju.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1406190851510.55091@wonkity.com> <20140620145342.GA11837@csbsju.edu>

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On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Michael Gass wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 08:54:12AM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Michael Gass wrote:
>>
>>>> As far as I know, that will work with vt(4).  However, you must
>>>> build a kernel with vt(4) instead of syscons(4).  And it requires
>>>> 9-STABLE, 10-STABLE, or newer.
>>>
>>> Thanks Warren. I will give it a try.
>>
>> There is a sample kernel config file in 9- and 10-stable called
>> "VT". It really just turns off the sc(4) and vga(4) modules and
>> enables vt(4) and vt_vga, which is easy to do in custom kernel
>> config files also.
>
> Hi Warren.
>
> Thanks for the response.  This works well except for one problem.
> The kernel rebuild went fine and vt_vga worked during the boot
> process. Tried kldload radeonkms and that worked well also.
> So I put radeonkms_load="YES" in loader.conf and then the boot
> process crashes. There is no dmesg available, but I can see
> the following error messages on the screen.
>
> error: [drm:pid0:r600_init_microcode] *ERROR* r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeonkmsfw_RV610_pfp"
> error: [drm:pid0:r600_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
> drmn0: error: disabling GPU acceleration
> error: [drm:pid0:r600_init] *ERROR* radeon: ucode required for R600+
> drmn0: error: Fatal error during GPU init
>
> I used a rescue cd to change loader.conf and get the system working
> again. I do not understand what the probem is, since radeonkms will
> work with kldload. I can also switch back and forth from X to vt
> without problem now.
>
> My graphics card is AMD RV610 HD 2400 PRO/XT
> I'm running FreeBSD 10.0-stable on an amd64 machine.
>
> I built everything with the lines
> WITH_NEW_XORG=yes
> WITH_GALLIUM=yes
> in make.conf
>
> Any advice?

Last I heard, manually loading the kernel module was problematic in this 
way.  Don't explicitly load it in loader.conf, let X and vt handle it.



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