Newcons radeonkms - Failed to load firmware "radeonkmsfw_TURKS_PFP"

Jean-Sébastien Pédron dumbbell at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 25 21:19:00 UTC 2014


On 25.01.2014 18:43, Mike C. wrote:
> After rebuilding the kernel with newcons support (which is working)
> I've placed radeonkms_load="YES" in boot loader and rebooted and get
> this screen.
> 
> what am I doing wrong?

Hello!

If you want to load radeonkms at boot time (from /boot/loader.conf), you
need to load the required firmwares too, otherwise they can't be loaded
automatically during boot (/ isn't mounted yet).

To find the list of firmwares you need to load, you can read
instructions on the wiki:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Video_driver_loaded_at_boot_time

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron

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