support for the Picasso APU in amdgpu

Kurt Hackenberg kh at panix.com
Thu Jan 23 17:43:36 UTC 2020


On 2020-01-22 21:58, Bakul Shah wrote:

> I installed drm-kmod (drm-fbsd12.0-kmod-4.16.g20200115 &
> drm-kmod-g20190710) and also xf86-video-amdgpu-19.0.1.  I see
> /dev/drm/ but Xorg terminates as /dev/dri doesn't exist.

If I understand how this stuff works, you shouldn't install both. I 
think xf86-video-amdgpu makes the X server deal with the GPU directly, 
rather than going through /dev/dri and kernel mode-setting. I think 
drm-kmod is preferred, and xf86-video-amdgpu is deprecated.

That's probably not why /dev/dri doesn't exist, though. For a new GPU, 
-current and the current drm-kmod are more likely to work.


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