Getting going with a new Dell 7810

Ronald Klop ronald-lists at klop.ws
Wed Jun 17 13:49:28 UTC 2015 

On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:29:48 +0200, Richard Kuhns <rjk at wintek.com> wrote:

> On 06/16/15 15:58, John Nielsen wrote:
>> On Jun 16, 2015, at 12:39 PM, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists at klop.ws> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> With UEFI boot it will be using vt but with the efifb driver by  
>> default. Hopefully loading the radeon KMS driver (as Ronald suggests  
>> above) will let it take over. Try it with just a “kldload radeonkms”  
>> before adding it to rc.conf, just in case something gets wedged..
>
> As you said, it is using vt. Unfortunately loading radeonkms didn't
> help. It actually seems to be a regression; the only RADEON line
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log now is the one that lists all the supported
> chipsets.  Immediately after that line it ends with
>
> ====
> [  4005.835] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
> [  4005.835] (++) Using config file: "/home/rjk/xorg.conf.new"
> [  4005.836] (==) ServerLayout "X.org Configured"
> [  4005.836] (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
> [  4005.836] (**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
> [  4005.836] (**) |   |-->Device "Card0"
> [  4005.836] (**) |-->Screen "Screen1" (1)
> [  4005.836] (**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor1"
> [  4005.836] (**) |   |-->Device "Card1"
> [  4005.836] (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
> [  4005.836] (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
> [  4005.836] (==) Automatically adding devices
> [  4005.836] (==) Automatically enabling devices
> [  4005.836] (==) Not automatically adding GPU devices
> [  4005.836] (**) FontPath set to:
>         /usr/local/share/fonts/misc/,
>         /usr/local/share/fonts/TTF/,
>         /usr/local/share/fonts/OTF/,
>         /usr/local/share/fonts/Type1/,
>         /usr/local/share/fonts/100dpi/,
>         /usr/local/share/fonts/75dpi/,
>         /usr/local/share/fonts/misc/,
>         /usr/local/share/fonts/TTF/,
>         /usr/local/share/fonts/OTF/,
>         /usr/local/share/fonts/Type1/,
>         /usr/local/share/fonts/100dpi/,
>         /usr/local/share/fonts/75dpi/
> [  4005.836] (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
> [  4005.836] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd',
> 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
> [  4005.836] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
> [  4005.836] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
> [  4005.836] (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
> [  4005.836] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
> [  4005.836] Number of created screens does not match number of detected
> devices.
>   Configuration failed.
> [  4005.836] (EE) Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file.
> ====
>
> I noticed in the previous log that it said
>
>>>> [  1292.463] (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
>
> which made me think I had something set up incorrectly, since it's using
> vt, not syscons.


Hi, I don't know about the other issues, but can confirm that my  
Xorg.0.log also says syscons here while I'm using vt. That is normal.

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!
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