Newcons radeonkms - Failed to load firmware "radeonkmsfw_TURKS_PFP"

[Mike C.]

Ah I was wrongly assuming that loading readonkms would do that, but as you say and the guide the filesystem isn't mounted... stupid me!

Many thanks.



"Jean-Sébastien Pédron" <dumbbell at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>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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