Working Video Card: Radeon RX 550

[Chris Wells]

Just as a quick update:

I switched from xf86-video-ati to xf86-video-amdgpu.
This card also works with 3 monitors using automatic configuration.

It never displays the login while resuming if I'm logged into KDE and 
the screen locks.  I simply disabled the "lock screen automatically" 
setting to work around it.

Chris

On 4/8/19 9:04 PM, Chris Wells wrote:
> My very old video card finally died today, so I picked up something less 
> old.  It's not on the AMD-GPU-Matrix wiki page, but it does work.  I'm 
> providing hardware info (attached) to document it per the instructions 
> on this page:
> 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Test_Results
> 
> This is the card:
> 
> https://smile.amazon.com/XFX-AMD-Radeon-Core-RX-550P4SFG5/dp/B071QXB522/
> 
> I'm running KDE from the quarterly pkg branch using a dual-monitor setup 
> with no manual X11 config.  I'll be able to test with 3 monitors when a 
> DisplayPort to HDMI cable arrives in 2 days.
> 
> I have this in loader.conf as instructed on the Graphics page:
> 
> hw.syscons.disable=1
> 
> FYI: I did not set that with my old Radeon HD 5450 card since I didn't 
> know it was "needed," but it worked anyway.  This card appears to 
> require it.
> 
> This is in rc.conf:
> 
> kld_list="/boot/modules/amdgpu.ko"
> 
> The following page lists older hardware as using the amdgpu module via 
> drm-kmod port while others do not say "via the port."  Does that mean 
> that I should NOT use the port?
> 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/AMD-GPU-Matrix
> 
> Two things worth noting:
> 
> 1) The output during boot is garbled, so I have to "guess" when to enter 
> the password for my backup disk.  My guess is that's due to 
> hw.syscons.disable=1 based on the Graphics page.
> 
> 2) Sound isn't working in Firefox anymore, so I'll need to find a fix 
> for that.
> 
> Thanks for all the effort you folks put into this.  It was really nice 
> to pick a somewhat random card, plug it in, and have it work with just a 
> couple of config file updates.
> 
> Chris