Newcons radeonkms - Failed to load firmware "radeonkmsfw_TURKS_PFP"

[Henry Hu]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Mike C. <miguelmclara at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Yes the intel works fine.
>
> I dont understand onde thing though... if I have i915kms unloaded and try
> to start X with the ATI card in xorg.conf should it work?
>

According to my experience with Optimus, you may need to do acpi calls to
enable the ATI card.
For my system, VGA output and LCD is connected to intel, and HDMI is
connected to nVidia. So I can start an X with dual-monitor configuration on
intel, and another X with HDMI output on nvidia.


> Sorry if its a dumb question...
>
>
> I dont mind using the intel tough, and investigate If I can pass the ATI
> card to a windows guest.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> "Jean-Sébastien Pédron" <dumbbell at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >On 27.01.2014 02:06, Miguel Clara wrote:
> >> Its an HP Pavillion and digging more into it its indeed on of this
> >> "Hybrid Graphichs" latops, so pretty sure it shares the same outputs,
> >> at least for the LCD, (not sure about VGA and HDMI but I would say
> >its
> >> also the same).
> >
> >This kind of setup isn't supported on FreeBSD yet, unfortunately, and
> >it's not a priority right now :-/
> >
> >> But when I tried starx (without the intel dirver and just the ATI
> >card
> >> - see xorg.conf attached files) I got an erro - segmentation fault,
> >> see Xorgradeonkmserro.log
> >
> >I think there's no need to chase that segfault yet, as long as we don't
> >support Optimus/PowerXpress.
> >
> >Is the Intel video card working correctly for you?
> >
> >> Any other usefull info, as long as I can grab it, I'll be glad to
> >> attach, hoping this helps add +1 card to the supported ones!
> >
> >Thanks for your offer :) Your card is probably supported, beside this
> >PowerXpress thing. But before we work on this, we have many required
> >improvements to make to the whole GPU drivers subsystem...
> >
> >--
> >Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>
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Cheers,
Henry