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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