Ars Technica article

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2020-04-13 12:27, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> 
>> Oh, I'm not blaming him at all.  And more to it, while Andrea Venturoli
>> is currently helps to debug xf86-video-ati-legacy issues, I'm not that
>> concerned about that driver, but rather that all other DRM ports except
>> legacy locking up my laptop upon "kldload radeonkms".  This isn't right;
>> it should be debugged and fixed, and only then drm-legacy-kmod port can
>> be removed.
>>
> 
> For what's is worth, since I moved from 12.0 to 12.1 none of the new DRM 
> ports worked for me. The only working configuration was kernel/world 
> from CURRENT (13) and ports compiled at least on 12.1-RELEASE. Are you 
> trying binary distributions or compiling on your own?
> 

When FreeBSD 12.1 was first released, there were issues with the binary 
package of drm-fbsd12.0-kmod, since all packages still were built on 
12.0, and a kmod built on 12.0 didn't work on 12.1.  Since then, the 
package build cluster has changed to build all packages for 12 on 12.1, 
so if you're running 12.1 the binary package should work.  If you are 
running 12-stable you need to compile the driver though.
Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising