Xorg configure failure with Radeon card

[Dutch Ingraham]

On 11/16/14 08:52, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
> On 15.11.2014 22:47, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> The wiki section is correct: adding radeonkms and the relevant firmwares
> to /boot/loader.conf is only required when you want them available
> during boot (to have a larger console).
> 
> Otherwise, the kernel module and firmwares are loaded automatically
> during X startup. Do you confirm that, if you boot without loading
> radeonkms, X fails to load the kernel module and reports no screen found?
> 
Jean-Sébastien:  yes, I can confirm that in my case, with a fresh
install of 10.1-RELEASE, xorg from ports or packages, and an HD-5450,
the module is not loaded during the boot process nor when calling X.

This, from the OP, when issuing <Xorg -configure>:

[  2160.756] (II) [KMS] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol, no kernel modesetting.
[  2160.756] Segmentation fault at address 0x0

When not using <Xorg -configure> and just issuing a <startx>, then I
would get the error "No screens found."  Only manually loading the
module works (either before or after boot).