Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:47:27 -0400 From: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org> To: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kokem=FCller?= <jan.kokemueller@gmail.com>, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Radeon Caicos issue Message-ID: <20141021014727.GS6490@blisses.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1410201917310.48441@wonkity.com> <5445B045.10009@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:00:53AM +0200, Jan Kokemüller wrote: > Hi! Hey there. > Can you try "kern.vty=vt" in your /boot/loader.conf? This enables the new > console subsystem which should play nice with the KMS drivers :) That was interesting. It didn't do anything when I loaded radeonkms from the console - the console went away and I was done. But... On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 07:18:52PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > Why are you manually loading the firmware at all? ...so, combining the two, I had that set and told loader.conf to load up radeonkms, and ... I couldn't boot, because radeonkms choked on not finding its firmware. I learned how to disable modules from the boot loader prompt, and continued... So, the reason why I was loading the firmware explicitly in loader.conf was because: 1. radeonkms wouldn't work if not loaded from loader.conf - after booting was too late, and 2. it finds its requisite firmware fine if I load it after boot, but it simply does work, whereas if I explicate the firmware in loader.conf, it has the firmware available as it boots. The upshot of all of it is that I need to say this in loader.conf for it to all work: kern.vty="vt" radeonkmsfw_CAICOS_pfp_load="YES" radeonkmsfw_CAICOS_me_load="YES" radeonkmsfw_BTC_rlc_load="YES" radeonkmsfw_CAICOS_mc_load="YES" radeonkms_load="YES" I'm downloading xorg packages now, and we'll see how the next step goes. I'm psyched to get this far though. If I get this all working, it's another box stolen from Debian's clutches and delivered into Beastie's light. :) -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because mason@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson
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