Getting going with a new Dell 7810

[John Nielsen]

On Jun 16, 2015, at 12:39 PM, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists at klop.ws> wrote:

> What does 'sysctl kern.vty' say? If it is not 'vt', you need the following stuff.
> 
> /boot/loader.conf should contain
> kern.vty="vt"
> 
> And /etc/rc.conf
> kld_list="radeonkms"
> 
> Or something similar.
> 
> FreeBSD is in the transition of old-style syscons- and vt-terminal. The last one has support for modern KMS graphics, but is not the default on 10 yet.

With UEFI boot it will be using vt but with the efifb driver by default. Hopefully loading the radeon KMS driver (as Ronald suggests above) will let it take over. Try it with just a “kldload radeonkms” before adding it to rc.conf, just in case something gets wedged..

> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 18:55:10 +0200, Richard Kuhns <rjk at wintek.com> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings all,
>> 
>> I've just received a new Dell Precision 7810. I've installed FreeBSD
>> 10.1 (UEFI boot), checked out sources, built world & kernel and am now
>> running r284449. So far, so good.
>> 
>> The problem is Xorg. I'm running the latest Xorg in ports; I just did a
>> 'make install clean' in /usr/ports/x11/xorg with no errors.
>> 
>> The display card is a FirePro W4100. lspci shows:
>> 
>> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>> [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde GL [FirePro W4100]
>> 
>> It has 4 DisplayPorts, and I have 2 monitors plugged in. If I run 'Xorg
>> -configure' it says
>> 
>> Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
>>  Configuration failed.
>> 
>> Looking through /var/log/Xorg.0.log it appears that the X server is
>> trying to use the RADEON driver, but ends with:
>> 
>> =====
>> [  1292.463] (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
>> [  1292.463] (--) using VT number 9
>> 
>> [  1292.485] (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
>> [  1292.485] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
>> [  1292.485] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card
>> support
>> [  1292.485] (==) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
>> [  1292.485] (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32
>> bpp pixmaps)
>> [  1292.485] (==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor
>> [  1292.485] (==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 888
>> [  1292.485] (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
>> [  1292.485] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "VERDE" (ChipID = 0x682c)
>> [  1292.579] (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for
>> pci:0000:03:00.0: No such file or directory
>> [  1292.579] (EE) RADEON(0): Kernel modesetting setup failed
>> [  1292.579] (II) UnloadModule: "radeon"
>> [  1292.579] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>> [  1292.579] (EE)
>> Fatal server error:
>> [  1292.579] (EE) no screens found(EE)
>> [  1292.580] (EE)
>> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>>         at http://wiki.x.org
>> for help.
>> [  1292.580] (EE) Please also check the log file at
>> "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
>> [  1292.580] (EE)
>> [  1292.580] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
>> ====
>> 
>> Should I be able to use this video card? I've done some googling, and
>> apparently at least some Linux people are using it.
>> 
>> It's not a huge deal if it doesn't work; I can install a Radeon HD 4670
>> that I know works. If I've mis-configured something, though, I'd like to
>> fix it.
>> 
>> Thanks for any comments!
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