Xorg configure failure with Radeon card

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Dutch Ingraham <stoa at gmx.us> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 20:45:59 +0100
> Jan Kokemüller <jan.kokemueller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Thanks again, Jan.  I already had that there (from the 10.1-RELEASE
> > > notes), so the error is with that tuner set.
> >
> > Does "kldload radeonkms" as root work, as in gives you a nice looking
> > console in native screen resolution? If that works, at least the KMS
> > driver does something correctly.
> >
> > Another idea is to try to rebuild the "x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati" port,
> > if you haven't done that already.
> >
> > Can you post the complete contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the output
> > of dmesg after a failed attempt to start the X server?
> >
> > -Jan
>
> Jan!!  That's just the wake-up I needed!  I went back to the last section
> of the wiki on graphics referred to above and re-read it.  For some reason,
> I was under the impression that loading the radeon firmware in the method
> described in that section was only if I wanted/needed kms to be loaded
> early; I assumed it would be loaded later in the boot process on its own,
> though.
>
> I was wrong.  After issuing a #<kldload radeonkms> as you suggested, the
> fb graphical resolution loaded.  Then, taking wblock@'s advice
> (elsewhere) that Xorg -config is now generally unnecessary, just issued a
> <startx> and things were working properly.  A little xrandr action and both
> monitors are working as desired.
>
> For the record, if anyone else is having this radeon issue, here is a
> summary specific to the 5450 card (note some of this may be unnecessary, I
> haven't tested each yet):
>
> In loader.conf
>
> kern.vty=vt
> radeonkmsfw_CEDAR_pfp_load="YES"
> radeonkmsfw_CEDAR_me_load="YES"
> radeonkmsfw_CEDAR_rlc_load="YES"
> radeonkms_load="YES"
>
> In make.conf:
>
> WITH_NEW_XORG=YES
> WITH_KMS=YES
> OPTIONS_SET=GALLIUM (or WITH_GALLIUM=YES, but the compiler will warn on
> this when building dri)
>
> Thanks again for all your help, Jan.
> --
> Dutch Ingraham <stoa at gmx.us>
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Just for completeness, WITH_KMS is no longer required for 9.3, 10.1 or HEAD
and WITH_NEW_XORG=YES is now the default for all supported versions. Not
that having them hurts anything.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com