Re: amdgpu driver

matthew green wrote:
> > [     1.036698] radeon0 at pci11 dev 0 function 0: ATI Technologies Radeon HD 7750/8740 / R7 250E (rev. 0x00)
> 
> this means you need the 'radeon' driver for x, not amdgpu.  the
> early "GCN" chipsets are handled by radeon, though there is some
> disabled by default code in amdgpu for them, it hangs for me when
> i enable it and so it remains disabled (same as upstream.).
> 
> if "radeon0 at pci*" attaches, then you need radeon.
> if "amdgpu0 at pci*" attaches, amdgpu etc.

The one I bought is labelled an R350, which supposedly is amdgpu
but it responds as an R250 and doesn't use amdgpu and doesn't work
as well as the HD5450 so I think I'll be returning it.

I anyone has a recommendation for a more modern amdgpu board that
does work well with -current and freecad, qcad or kicad, I'd like
to hear about it as none of the above work well with either of my
gpus.

> i stopped using my old 5450's when i got a second monitor and
> pushed my total screen size beyond what it can handle, but i've
> had better success with "modesetting" driver lately for both
> amdgpu laptop and radeon laptop, it just needs to use eg, mpv
> -vo=gpu instead of xv.

I tried that with the HD5450 and mpv gets long horizontal stripes
all over the window at the beginning, but does clear up later.  I
don't really use mpv much. It's just something that has trouble
since NetBSD 10+ that was something to mention. It's mainly freecad
and kicad that I'd like to have working without all of the window
trash.

Thanks!!