amdgpu on Ryzen 4700 w. Vega10 Renoir Graphics

[Michael Schuster]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 10:51 AM Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se>
wrote:

> On 2020-07-23 09:43, Michael Schuster wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 8:54 AM Michael Schuster
> > <michaelsprivate at gmail.com <mailto:michaelsprivate at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 8:35 AM Michael Schuster
> >     <michaelsprivate at gmail.com <mailto:michaelsprivate at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >         good morning,
> >
> >         On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 8:50 PM Michael Schuster
> >         <michaelsprivate at gmail.com <mailto:michaelsprivate at gmail.com>>
> >         wrote:
> >
> >
> >                   more - I'm hoping for your guidance :-)
> >
> >                 It would be interesting to see why make install in
> >                 drm-devel-kmod failed
> >                 and you had to copy the modules yourself.
> >
> >
> >             I've already turned off the laptop for the day. If you like,
> >             I'll re-build it with "script" as soon as I get round to it,
> >             so I don't have to guess.
> >
> >
> >         after 'make clean deinstall', 'make install' succeeded (I
> >         verified the dates on /boot/modules/*ko). I probably had it
> >         coming ;-)
> >
> >         anyway, X still doesn't start ;-(
> >
> >
> >                   From the output you've pasted, it looks like amdgpu.ko
> >                 didn't load and
> >                 attach properly to the hardware.  What does dmesg say
> >                 when you load the
> >                 module?
> >
> >
> >             I'll supply that too with the make output.
> >
> >
> >         this is all I can find related either to drm or amdgpu:
> >           [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled.
> >         are we looking for some specific pattern?
> >
> >         Xorg.0.log looks much the same a I posted last night.
> >
> >
> >
> >         thx!
> >         Michael
> >
> >
> >                 Have you done any xorg configuration?
> >
> >
> >             No.
> >
> >
> >     actually, I probably need to correct that statement: I didn't do
> >     anything by hand; I *did* run mkdesktop though right after
> installation.
> >
> >
> > While reading Manish's email on mkdesktop, this occurred to me: do I
> > need any of the linux-compatibility packages/kmods/... ? I declined to
> > install either Wine or Linuxulator, was that a mistake?
> > ISTR that I have some linux-related items in the kld_list on a different
> > laptop running GhostBSD, but since these two machines are roughly 15
> > years apart, age-wise, I hesitate to draw conclusions ... :-)
>
> Hi!
> Apologies if I've missed any e-mails or been slow to answer.
> The Linux compat layer, also calle dthe linuxolator or similar, is only
> needed if you want to run Linux binaries on your FreeBSD system.  It is
> different from the Linux KPI that the graphics drivers use.
> Likewise, wine is only needed if you want to run Windows applications in
> it.
>

no worries ;-) - thx.
so I guess I need the linux KPI Modules - do they have to be put in the
kld_list in /etc/rc.conf explicitly, or are they somehow implicit?

cheers
Michael

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