DRM and higher screen resolutions on older hardware for current/13-ALPHA3

George Michaelson ggm at algebras.org
Fri Feb 5 07:21:39 UTC 2021


Thanks. That's most helpful! compiling now "lets see what happens"

-G

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 5:06 PM Bakul Shah <bakul at iitbombay.org> wrote:
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>
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> > On Feb 5, 2021, at 6:09 AM, George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org> wrote:
> >
> > I have a Lenovo Edge 420 with the ATI/Radeon graphics card.
> >
> > The "this .ko, that blob" thing is really confusing if you've been out
> > of the loop for a while, and with older hardwar (its 8+ year old
> > laptop) its not impossible its fallen off the curve of available .ko
> > drivers.
> >
> > Anyone have any practical guidance to which radeon.ko I want to load?
> > Not seeing valid Xorg with any of them and finding 640x480 tiresome.
>
> In rc.conf I have
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> kld_list="ig4 iichid amdgpu"
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> Replace amdgpu with radeonkms. It will in turn load various
> radeon*_bin.ko modules for firmware. I don't have this
> card so this is just a guess (I am running 13.0-ALPHA3).
> Compile /usr/ports/graphics/drm-fbsd13-kmod at the same
> time as the kernel by adding
>
> PORTS_MODULES=graphics/drm-fbsd13-kmod
> PORTS_MODULES+=graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod
>
> to /etc/src.conf. AFAIK installing a package won't work.
>
> I need ig4 and iichid drivers for the touchpad.


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