APU Bristol Ridge graphics support

[Johannes Dieterich]

On Sunday, September 30, 2018, Rozhuk Ivan wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 17:04:26 +0000
> Johannes Dieterich <dieterich.joh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > A10-9700
> > > Bristol Ridge Radeon R7
> > > 
> > > vgapci0 at pci0:0:1:0:	class=0x030000 card=0x1e201002
> > > chip=0x98741002 rev=0xe2 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Advanced Micro
> > > Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]' device     = 'Wani [Radeon R5/R6/R7
> > > Graphics]' class      = display
> > >     subclass   = VGA  
> 
> > Yes, I've had a Bristol Ridge as a daily driver until a few days ago.
> > Use the LinuxKPI based DRM from ports, if you are on CURRENT
> > graphics/drm-devel-kmod, and load amdgpu.ko.
> > 
> 
> I am on 11.2.
> 
> I try drm-stable-kmod-g20180822 but it fail to load, as I understand.
That should work, could you post the error messages? I assume you followed the instructions in the port?
 
> Is xf86-video-amdgpu must be used with drm-*-kmod* ?
Yes, you should use the amdgpu DDX with the amdgpu kernel DRM. I used it and it works well but you may also be able to use the modesetting DDX, I haven't tried that.

Johannes