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Date:      Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:54:34 +0200
From:      Volodymyr Kostyrko <arcade@b1t.name>
To:        FreeBSD X11 mailing list <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: problems booting w/ X11 ati driver
Message-ID:  <566DCCFA.3060301@b1t.name>
In-Reply-To: <566D9A13.9050208@hiwaay.net>
References:  <566D9A13.9050208@hiwaay.net>

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On 13.12.2015 18:15, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>
> I tried activating use of the X11 ati (also radeon) driver this A.M. I
> also did a full pkg upgrade & freebsd-update. When I rebooted,
> everything went AOK. When I logged in, my setup starts XFCE by default
> from .xinitrc (IIRC). I also had drm_load & radeonkms_load activated in
> my /boot/loader.conf file. The drm & radeon modules didn't get started
> up correctly & X11 wouldn't start, see 1st attached. I commented out the
> drm & radeon lines in my loader.conf & rebooted & tried again. Still
> nogo, see 2nd attached. I also tried setting my driver to ati & radeon,
> w/ no loader loads, still nogo. I went back to my stock xorg.conf, using
> vesa driver & got logged in AOK as always, see 3rd attached. My
> xorg.conf is a bit cluttered from various attempts to get other stuff
> working (vbox, etc.), but w/ VESA driver starts XFCE AOK. My hardware is
> visible in the xorg.conf file, uname below.

Please attach the output of `dmesg` after you try it with radeon. The 
words "Failed to load kernel module for pci:0000:00:01.0: Exec format 
error" mostly look like a problem with loading a kernel module. You 
don't need to preload any modules from `loader.conf` - Xorg will try 
load everything it would need anyway. And `dmesg` will show what goes on 
when modules are initialized.

> Is my CPU/APU supported for the ati or radeon driver (even if not full
> 3D) ? The wiki implies not, but doesn't specifically mention my combo,
> so I ask. TIA & have a good one.

Well yes, wiki states that it's not supported. On the other hand wiki 
mentions the full list of what you can provide to check what was the 
problem for those devices: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Reporting

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