On Thu, 4 Jul 2024, William Bulley wrote:
According to Vladimir Dergachev <volo...@mindspring.com> on Thu, 07/04/24 at
15:26:
This depends on the card and the manufacturer. For NVidia, there are usually
close-sourced NVidia drivers and an open source noveau driver that might
take some time to catchup for a newer card.
In contrast, AMD provides full open source drivers, and there is a release
page with a June 2024 release:
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-AMDGPU-UNIFIED-LINUX-24-10-3.html
Since you card is around 2 years old, chances are the support is already in
a newer Linux release, thus I suggest you first try the latest Ubuntu
version on a usb stick. If this works this is good news.
Alternatively, try installing AMD drivers from a link above.
Thanks for the reply. After I reached out to this list, and after doing
some (inconclusive) research on this topic -- and my ignorance of AMD, I
found out my problem: the FreeBSD handbook says to add kld_list="amdgpu"
to the /etc/rc.conf file, but I missed to additional steps needed (may
be in a different section of the handbook) which were to add two ports:
graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod
x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu
Once I built and installed those two ports, Xorg/x11 graphics worked
flawlessly on the Thinkpad T16. Thanks again for your information.
Great that it works :)
Missed that you are running FreeBSD - nice !
Vladimir Dergachev
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