Getting going with a new Dell 7810

[Ronald Klop]

What does 'sysctl kern.vty' say? If it is not 'vt', you need the following  
stuff.

/boot/loader.conf should contain
kern.vty="vt"

And /etc/rc.conf
kld_list="radeonkms"

Or something similar.

FreeBSD is in the transition of old-style syscons- and vt-terminal. The  
last one has support for modern KMS graphics, but is not the default on 10  
yet.

Regards,
Ronald.


On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 18:55:10 +0200, Richard Kuhns <rjk at wintek.com> wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I've just received a new Dell Precision 7810. I've installed FreeBSD
> 10.1 (UEFI boot), checked out sources, built world & kernel and am now
> running r284449. So far, so good.
>
> The problem is Xorg. I'm running the latest Xorg in ports; I just did a
> 'make install clean' in /usr/ports/x11/xorg with no errors.
>
> The display card is a FirePro W4100. lspci shows:
>
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
> [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde GL [FirePro W4100]
>
> It has 4 DisplayPorts, and I have 2 monitors plugged in. If I run 'Xorg
> -configure' it says
>
> Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
>   Configuration failed.
>
> Looking through /var/log/Xorg.0.log it appears that the X server is
> trying to use the RADEON driver, but ends with:
>
> =====
> [  1292.463] (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
> [  1292.463] (--) using VT number 9
>
> [  1292.485] (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
> [  1292.485] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
> [  1292.485] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card
> support
> [  1292.485] (==) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> [  1292.485] (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32
> bpp pixmaps)
> [  1292.485] (==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> [  1292.485] (==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 888
> [  1292.485] (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
> [  1292.485] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "VERDE" (ChipID = 0x682c)
> [  1292.579] (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for
> pci:0000:03:00.0: No such file or directory
> [  1292.579] (EE) RADEON(0): Kernel modesetting setup failed
> [  1292.579] (II) UnloadModule: "radeon"
> [  1292.579] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> [  1292.579] (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> [  1292.579] (EE) no screens found(EE)
> [  1292.580] (EE)
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>          at http://wiki.x.org
>  for help.
> [  1292.580] (EE) Please also check the log file at
> "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
> [  1292.580] (EE)
> [  1292.580] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
> ====
>
> Should I be able to use this video card? I've done some googling, and
> apparently at least some Linux people are using it.
>
> It's not a huge deal if it doesn't work; I can install a Radeon HD 4670
> that I know works. If I've mis-configured something, though, I'd like to
> fix it.
>
> Thanks for any comments!