Newcons radeonkms - Failed to load firmware "radeonkmsfw_TURKS_PFP"

[Miguel Clara]

Just a note about brightness I can do this:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --brightness 0.5

And it seems to dimm the screen backlight,  works for me... one less problem :)

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Miguel Clara <miguelmclara at gmail.com> wrote:
> Its an HP Pavillion and digging more into it its indeed on of this
> "Hybrid Graphichs" latops, so pretty sure it shares the same outputs,
> at least for the LCD, (not sure about VGA and HDMI but I would say its
> also the same).
>
> I couldn't attach the log at that time because the latpop was stuck on
> that screen, all I can do is PowerOff, I even tried SSH, but no joy.
>
> I'm actually running X with MATE now fine but using only the Intel
> graphics, only thing I notice is that with KMS I can't change
> brightness, but I guess its not yet implemented...
>
> pciconf -lv output for both:
>
> [miguelc at hpbsd]~% pciconf -lv | egrep 'Graphics|Radeon' -B2 -A2
> vgapci1 at pci0:0:2:0:    class=0x030000 card=0x1657103c chip=0x01168086
> rev=0x09 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = '2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated
> Graphics Controller'
>     class      = display
>     subclass   = VGA
> --
> vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0:    class=0x030000 card=0x1657103c chip=0x67401002
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI'
>     device     = 'Whistler XT [AMD Radeon HD 6700M Series]'
>     class      = display
>     subclass   = VGA
>
>
> I also tried to manual kldunload i915kms and then kldload readonkms and got:
> Jan 26 00:43:33 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon_atrm_get_bios: ===> Try ATRM...
> Jan 26 00:43:33 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon_atrm_get_bios:
> pci_find_class() found: 0:0:2:0, vendor=8086, device=0116
> Jan 26 00:43:33 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon_atrm_get_bios: Get
> ACPI device handle
> Jan 26 00:43:33 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon_atrm_get_bios: Get
> ACPI handle for "ATRM"
> Jan 26 00:43:33 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon_atrm_get_bios: Call
> radeon_atrm_call()
> Jan 26 00:43:33 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon: 1024M of VRAM memory ready
> Jan 26 00:43:33 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
> Jan 26 00:43:33 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
> Jan 26 00:43:33 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon_device_init: Taking
> over the fictitious range 0xa0000000-0xb0000000
> Jan 26 00:43:33 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon: power management initialized
> Jan 26 00:43:33 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] Initialized radeon 2.29.0 20080528
> Jan 26 00:46:29 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon_atrm_get_bios: ===> Try ATRM...
> Jan 26 00:46:29 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon_atrm_get_bios:
> pci_find_class() found: 0:0:2:0, vendor=8086, device=0116
> Jan 26 00:46:29 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon_atrm_get_bios: Get
> ACPI device handle
> Jan 26 00:46:29 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon_atrm_get_bios: Get
> ACPI handle for "ATRM"
> Jan 26 00:46:29 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon_atrm_get_bios: Call
> radeon_atrm_call()
> Jan 26 00:46:29 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon: 1024M of VRAM memory ready
> Jan 26 00:46:29 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
> Jan 26 00:46:29 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
> Jan 26 00:46:29 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon_device_init: Taking
> over the fictitious range 0xa0000000-0xb0000000
> Jan 26 00:46:29 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] radeon: power management initialized
> Jan 26 00:46:29 hpbsd kernel: info: [drm] Initialized radeon 2.29.0 20080528
>
>
> So it seems to work!
>
> But when I tried starx (without the intel dirver and just the ATI card
> - see xorg.conf attached files) I got an erro - segmentation fault,
> see Xorgradeonkmserro.log
>
> Any other usefull info, as long as I can grab it, I'll be glad to
> attach, hoping this helps add +1 card to the supported ones!
>
>
> btw the brightness problem also happens in a Acer laptop running
> FreeBSD 10 with just the Intel driver!
>
> Thanks
>
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron
> <dumbbell at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 26.01.2014 01:17, Mike C. wrote:
>>> Just changed and booted again, tried the kldload and got a similar
>>> screen freezer.
>>>
>>> I'll have to attach a screenshot again.
>>
>> Kernel messages are logged in /var/log/messages by default. Could you
>> please post this log file, after removing any informations you don't
>> want to share?
>>
>>> I should also mention this is a laptop with an ati card but it also has
>>> Intel integrated graphics (i7 processor).
>>> Maybe this is what causes he issue?
>>
>> Hmmm, do you know if those two cards share a single set of output
>> connectors? The technology is called "AMD PowerXpress" (something
>> similar to NVIDIA Optimus).
>>
>> What's the maker and model of your laptop?
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>>