Re: Xorg fails after update system to 16.0

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:28:52 UTC
On 10/18/26 14:08, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> You will need to rebuild any kernel modules that come from ports.
> 
> I followed this hint and recompiled (or deleted) old kernel module
> ports. Now /boot/modules is up to date on /usr/port HEAD:
> 
> # ls -lt /boot/modules/
> total 20388
> -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel    12500 Oct 18 18:09 linker.hints
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel   433904 Oct 18 16:39 amdgpu_aldebaran_vcn_bin.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel   151272 Oct 18 16:39 amdgpu_aldebaran_ta_bin.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel   454384 Oct 18 16:39 amdgpu_aldebaran_sos_bin.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel   253680 Oct 18 16:39 amdgpu_aldebaran_smc_bin.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel   278304 Oct 18 16:39 amdgpu_aldebaran_sjt_mec2_bin.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel   278296 Oct 18 16:39 amdgpu_aldebaran_sjt_mec_bin.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel    44792 Oct 18 16:39 amdgpu_aldebaran_sdma_bin.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel    57072 Oct 18 16:39 amdgpu_aldebaran_rlc_bin.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel   278264 Oct 18 16:39 amdgpu_aldebaran_mec2_bin.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel   278256 Oct 18 16:39 amdgpu_aldebaran_mec_bin.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel  3410960 Oct 18 15:17 i915kms.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel  2408736 Oct 18 15:17 radeonkms.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel 11081984 Oct 18 15:17 amdgpu.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel   980584 Oct 18 15:17 drm.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel   103360 Oct 18 15:17 ttm.ko
> -r--r--r--  1 root wheel    58824 Oct 18 15:17 dmabuf.ko
> 
> # kldload amdgpu
> (PANIC)
> 
> Loading amdgpu.ko (which would be normally done via /etc/rc.conf) PANICs
> the system. The lines in /var/log/messages after the kldload are:

Note: Normally panics prevent flushing out the last of the messages as
far as I know. So likely there was more that one can not see after the fact.

> 
> ...
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: amdgpu: ATOM BIOS: 113-CEZANNE-018
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: drmn0: could not load firmware image 'amdgpu/green_sardine_sdma.bin'
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm ERROR :amdgpu_sdma_init_microcode] SDMA: Failed to init firmware "amdgpu/green_sardine_sdma.bin"
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm ERROR :sdma_v4_0_early_init] Failed to load sdma firmware!
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm] VCN decode is enabled in VM mode
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm] VCN encode is enabled in VM mode
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm] JPEG decode is enabled in VM mode
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: drmn0: Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) feature enabled
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: drmn0: PCIE atomic ops is not supported
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: drmn0: MODE2 reset
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm] vm size is 262144 GB, 4 levels, block size is 9-bit, fragment size is 9-bit
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: drmn0: VRAM: 512M 0x000000F400000000 - 0x000000F41FFFFFFF (512M used)
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: drmn0: GART: 1024M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x000000003FFFFFFF
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: drmn0: AGP: 267419648M 0x000000F800000000 - 0x0000FFFFFFFFFFFF
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm ERROR :amdgpu_bo_init] Unable to set WC memtype for the aperture base
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=512M, BAR=512M
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR4
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm] amdgpu: 512M of VRAM memory ready
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm] amdgpu: 3772M of GTT memory ready.
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm] GART: num cpu pages 262144, num gpu pages 262144
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm] PCIE GART of 1024M enabled.
> Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: [drm] PTB located at 0x000000F41FC00000
> 
> (PANIC)
> 
> What I'm still missing?
> Which port brings amdgpu/green_sardine_sdma.bin ?

Have a look at "man 8 fwget"?

> 
> 	matthias
> 


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