On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 13:14:20 +0300
Greg V <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 12:55 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I do not know if I am doing something wrong or just doesn't work on
> > my computer.
> > My system: FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p4 (GENERIC md64), computer iMac
> > 11,1, boot manager rEFit, graphics card Radeon HD 4850 (on the
> > FreeBSD wiki page looks like is supported). And I am using portsnap
> > for updating ports.
> > Yesterday I tried again:
> > Built drm-kmod which pulled also drm-stable-kmod and
> > gpu-firmware-kmod.
> > All three were built without problems.
> > I put in /etc/rc.conf kld_list="/boot/modules/radeonkms.ko" and in
> > /boot/loader.conf:
> > hw.syscons.disable=1
> > kern.vty="vt"
> >
> > I have a question about setting hw.syscons... Shoutl be:
> > set hw.syscons.disable="1"
> > or just
> > hw.syscons.disable=1
>
> 'set' is a command you can use in the loader prompt.
> In the loader.conf file, it's just the variable and value, no 'set'.
>
> > because I f I have the last settings or not computer doing the same:
> > after swith to vt it became black with a little tingling and nothing
> > happened.
>
> The "tingling" is exactly what's supposed to happen (no EFI
> framebuffer).
> The driver should load then and enable display again.
> Looks like it failed to load.
>
> You can SSH into the machine to read dmesg, retry loading driver
> modules, etc.
>
> > In the /var/messages I got also radeon/RV770_pfp.bin: could not load
> > firmware image, error 2
> > radeon/RV770_rlc.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2
> > radeon/RV770_smc.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2
> > radeon/RV770_uvd.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2
> >
> > I did try also ati-legacy drivers but result was the same.
>
> Do you mean ati-legacy for Xorg only?
> Try kernel modules from drm-legacy-kmod instead of drm-stable-kmod.
>
I did try to build drm-legacy-kmod after comment "ignore lines" (it is
for FreeBSD 12.0 or above) but it doesn't build.
BTW: I did try live Linux and it works.
Thank you.
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