Re: Wanted: pointer to FreeBSD Radeon expertise

On 2024-01-23 18:59, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> Hi William,
> 
> I'm forwarding your question to x11@ list which is the right place to
> ask.  What's exact model/generation of your card?  For example, in my
> computer here I have:
> 
> $ pciconf -lv | grep -A2 ^vga
> vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0:     class=0x030000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x1002
> device=0x954f subvendor=0x1462 subdevice=0x1618
>     vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
>     device     = 'RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550]'
> 
> /danfe
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from William Bulley <[email protected]> -----
> 
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:00:25 -0500
> From: William Bulley <[email protected]>
> To: [redacted]
> Subject: Wanted: pointer to FreeBSD Radeon expertise
> 
> I don't know where to ask for help with my Radeon graphics card.
> 
> I can't get it to work -- always says: "[EE] no screen found" or
> something like that.  I've read everything in the handbook, and
> several related man pages.  I can't get it to work.
> 
> Surely there is someone in FreeBSD who could point me in the
> right direction.  Can you help me?  Thank you in advance.
While it'd be nice to get better details regarding your environment.
May I suggest installing one of the drm kernel modules found in
/usr/ports/graphics for example:
drm-510-kmod/
drm-515-kmod/
drm-61-kmod/
drm-kmod/

in most cases drm-515-kmod would probably be your choice. If you follow
that with /usr/ports/graphics/gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod, you should be all 
set.

Any of this may also be installed with pkg(8). For example:
pkg install drm-515-kmod
followed by: pkg install gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod
Now you have all you need to get HD graphics. Next you'd add the following
to rc.conf(5)
kld_list="radeonkms"
After a system restart you should have everything loaded save X and friends.
X(7) should recognize your hardware. So nothing more should be required to
use your hardware.

HTH

--Chris