Problems loading RV620 firmware

[Ronald Klop]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:24:07 +0200, Pete French  
<petefrench at ingresso.co.uk> wrote:

> I switched over to using the new Xorg and VT, using the
> prebuilt packages, all of which went relkatively smoothly. But
> I have lost hardware acceleration inside X. My card is a Radeon
> 3450 which is an RV620 card.
>
>
> If I boot the machine and try and kiad radeomkms.ko by hand then it just
> locks up the machine. No useful info on the consolue.
>
> If I try loadiing radeonkms and boot time, it then displays a lot
> more information when it boots about loading up drm, and then afils
> saying is callot load the firmware for the card. Specificly
> it cant load radeonkmsfw_RV620_pfp
>
> At this point booting stops and the machine is unresponsive.
>
> Now I dont particularly mind the loss of hardware acceleration,
> as I dont use it anyway, but I thought I should report this as
> a bug, as this should be a supported card and configuration.
> KMS is kernel related to this is the correct place I hope.
>
> The kernel is r268669 from Tuesday of this week, and the
> packages are the binary builds from Monday, using the pkg
> repository for systems runnijng the new Xorg. The machine
> is an AMD Phenom II 965 with 4 gig of RAM, and the
> motherboard is MSI K9A2 Platinum (the 7376 model).
>
> Am quite happy to try out things on this too, as its my
> personal workstation so doesnt disruopt anyone else when it crashes.
>
> cheers,
>
> -pete.

What version of FreeBSD are you running?

Ronald.