On 7/5/24 11:47, William Bulley wrote:
According to Pete Wright <p...@nomadlogic.org> on Fri, 07/05/24 at 13:53:
your best first step might be to see when this driver became available in
the linux kernel. freebsd has several drivers that track various linux kernel
versions. i think the current linux kernel versions would are 5.10, 5.15, and
6.1.
if it's available in one of those versions then chances are pretty good you
can get it running on freebsd.
Thanks for the reply, Pete. After I reached out to the xorg 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 two
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.
oh glad to hear it. those steps should be covered here in the Handbook:
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x-graphic-card-drivers
If they aren't clear or confusing though I think feedback would be
appreciated so we can make the documentation easier for other users too!
cheers,
-pete
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Pete Wright
p...@nomadlogic.org
