ATI graphics card on FreeBSD10: Xorg -configure fails (No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol)

[Kevin Oberman]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Gereon Kaiping <kta1c10!gereon at linta.de>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I recently got someone's spare ATI X1950XTX graphics card for free,
> and considered to have it replace my nvidia Quadro. Not knowing much
> about hardware and 3D acceleration and stuff, I searched the internet
> for a bit and found out that the ATI Radeon KMS drivers are supposed
> to be in FreeBSD 10, and took that as good news to indeed try it out.
>
> Unfortunately, that was not very successful. While it did not break
> everything (The system does still boot) I don't get X configured with
> this new configuration, because `X -configure` fails with a segfault
> (see below).
>
> This is still the case also after rebuilding the base system and all
> my packages from source while having
> WITH_NEW_XORG=yes
> WITH_KMS=yes
> in my /etc/make.conf.
> Is there a likely way to debug this problem (Changing some other
> options and rebuilding some software? configuring X by
> hand/xorgcfg/xorgconfig/stuff like that?) and get this to work, or am
> I better off putting my nvidia card back in and foregoing hardware 3d
> acceleration?
>
> -- Gereon Kaiping
>
> ==X -configure output==
>
> X.Org X Server 1.12.4
> Release Date: 2012-08-27
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT amd64
> Current Operating System: FreeBSD parhippus 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD
> 11.0-CURRENT #0 r261797: Wed Feb 19 01:41:55 GMT 2014
> gereon at parhippus:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PARHIPPUS amd64
> Build Date: 20 February 2014  01:20:20PM
>
> Current version of pixman: 0.32.4
>         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>         to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Feb 20 22:01:23 2014
> List of video drivers:
>         ati
>         radeon
>         intel
>         r128
>         openchrome
>         mach64
>         nv
>         vesa
> (++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
> (II) [KMS] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol, no kernel modesetting.
> Segmentation fault at address 0x0
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
>
>
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>          at http://wiki.x.org
>  for help.
> Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
> information.
>
> Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
> Abort trap (core dumped)
>

For  ATi  KMS, you need to build WITH_GALLIUM. not WITH_KMS. WITH_KMS
builds in kernel support for Intel cards.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com