A question about graphics subsystems under FreeBSD

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:13:46 -0700
Gary Aitken <freebsd at dreamchaser.org> wrote:

> There are a boatload of additional radeonkmsfw_*.ko modules in /boot, but
> I don't know how they are used.  My attempt to use a radeon 5550 board
> hung the system (11.2) on exit; haven't had time to look at it.

	The right ones are loaded automatically by the main radeonkms
driver - at least that's what happens with the amdgpu one. You almost
certainly need to compile the drm-kmod port to get things working -
installing the package is a recipe for panics IME.

	I gather that for radeonkms the radeon dri driver works but for
amdgpu (my laptop) there's /usr/local/lib/dri/amdgpu_dri.so wanted by Xorg
but I can't find it anywhere.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>