Radeon Caicos issue

[Mason Loring Bliss]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:00:53AM +0200, Jan Kokemüller wrote:

> Hi!

Hey there.


> Can you try "kern.vty=vt" in your /boot/loader.conf? This enables the new
> console subsystem which should play nice with the KMS drivers :)

That was interesting. It didn't do anything when I loaded radeonkms from the
console - the console went away and I was done. But...


On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 07:18:52PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:

> Why are you manually loading the firmware at all?

...so, combining the two, I had that set and told loader.conf to load up
radeonkms, and ... I couldn't boot, because radeonkms choked on not finding
its firmware.

I learned how to disable modules from the boot loader prompt, and
continued...

So, the reason why I was loading the firmware explicitly in loader.conf was
because:

1. radeonkms wouldn't work if not loaded from loader.conf - after booting was
too late, and
2. it finds its requisite firmware fine if I load it after boot, but it
simply does work, whereas if I explicate the firmware in loader.conf, it has
the firmware available as it boots.

The upshot of all of it is that I need to say this in loader.conf for it to
all work:

kern.vty="vt"
radeonkmsfw_CAICOS_pfp_load="YES"
radeonkmsfw_CAICOS_me_load="YES"
radeonkmsfw_BTC_rlc_load="YES"
radeonkmsfw_CAICOS_mc_load="YES"
radeonkms_load="YES"

I'm downloading xorg packages now, and we'll see how the next step goes. I'm
psyched to get this far though. If I get this all working, it's another box
stolen from Debian's clutches and delivered into Beastie's light. :)

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