Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics card fails: open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

[Denis Polygalov]

Hi Greg,

I'm reading this mailing list for a while now and wondering a lot why 
you guys are saying 'you need to install drm-next-kmod package' without 
mentioning that 'in order to do so you also need to re-compile kernel 
and the whole system from scratch and the result can not be considered 
as a stable OS' ...
Neither drm-next-kmod nor drm-stable-kmod are supported on the latest 
RELEASE version (11.1) of FreeBSD. Am I wrong?

Regards,
Denis

On 26/05/2018 12:56 AM, Greg V wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
>> xf86-video-ati-7.9.0_1,1 is installed.
>>
>> Wiki also doesn't mention if this card is supported or not: 
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
>>
>>
>> This card identifies as:
>>
>> # pciconf -lv | grep -A 4 vga
>> vgapci0 at pci0:0:1:0:    class=0x030000 card=0x39f917aa chip=0x98e41002 
>> rev=0xda hdr=0x00
>>     vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
>>     device     = 'Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics]'
> 
> Hi, you need to install the drm-next-kmod package and load either the 
> "radeonkms" or the "amdgpu" kernel module. (Stoney is GCN 1.2, should be 
> supported by both I think.) The installation message will tell you how 
> to set up loading the module at boot.
> 
> Forget about xf86-video-ati, that's ancient stuff. You don't have to 
> configure anything in xorg, it should use modesetting/glamor automatically.
> 
> Note that if you use UEFI boot, you need to disable the EFI framebuffer 
> (hw.syscons.disable=1) for now:
> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/issues/170
> With that, you won't see the console before the module is loaded.
> You can use SSH to test loading the kernel module if it doesn't auto load.
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