On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor <mcp_rez...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: alexander.kaps...@gmail.com > Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 09:35:28 +0200 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] anyone tried amdgpu (kernel module) > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor < > mcp_rez...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I have a Bonaire gpu, which has legacy support using the amdgpu kernel > module. I currently use the Radeon dri module with radeonsi mesa drivers > and am quite happy. But gentoo being gentoo I thought I'd give the amdgpu > a go for the fun of it. > > Tried a few variations and keep coming up with a black screen on boot and > it's hard locked. I'm using the same Firmware includes that the radeon > driver requires, and from reading it looks like that's fine with amdgpu, so > I'm not sure what else could be the issue. > > Has anyone here tried and had success with it? I've tried Kernels 4.2 > 4.2.4 4.3 and 4.3.2. So I believe I'm missing something simple and it's > not a kernel bug. > > > Did you consult the wiki article shown below when configuring your system > to use admgpu? > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Amdgpu > > > > > > Yes I have. The CIK parts kernel option is enabled. the only thing I > find a bit odd, is in the firmware include list is radeon/bonaire_sdma1.bin > which doesn't exist on my system using sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20150812. > So I'm assuming it's an error on the wiki page. > Have you tried this firmware package instead, sys-firmware/amdgpu-ucode? Do you have the firmware included in your kernel config file? Device Drivers ---> Generic Driver Options ---> -*- Userspace firmware loading support [*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary (amdgpu/<YOUR-MODEL>.bin radeon/<YOUR-MODEL>.bin) (/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory
