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

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Fri Feb 21 18:12:40 UTC 2014


On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Gereon Kaiping wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 21 February 2014 04:33, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> [?]  WITH_NEW_XORG gets the
>> later version of xorg with KMS drivers, and the ATI driver also needs
>> WITH_GALLIUM.
>
> So I added
> WITH_GALLIUM=  yes
> to my /etc/make.conf, ran `pkg delete -f libGL dri` and reinstalled
> all packages that were depending on libGL and dri, (`portupgrade -f
> [?] graphics/libGLU x11/xdriinfo x11-servers/xorg-server
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel x11-drivers/xf86-video-mach64
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome x11-drivers/xf86-video-r128
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati x11/xorg`).
>
> That was not enough, `X -configure` still segfaults, same as before.

There is a list of ports to rebuild at 
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Installing_KMS_Ports

> So I thought maybe rebuilding world would help, but nope, that's not it either.
>
> Seeing that x11-drivers/radeonhd is not in that list, I tried to
> install it explicitly and it told me `** Port marked as IGNORE:
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd: Reports of issues with KMS,
> unsupported, use xf86-video-ati.` Is that as expected or part of the
> problem? Did I leave out any other critical step?

radeonhd is a dead, unsupported driver.  The one to use is radeon, which 
is part of xf86-video-ati.


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