> I have a radeon graphics card, too.? Recently, I had a problem with the > graphics/drm-kmod hanging on boot in multi-user.? My fix was to switch > to graphics/drm-legacy-kmod, which at least lets the system boot again. > I figure the newer graphics/drm-kmod no longer supports my old radeon card.So, I was about to post about this, and then saw this thread. I too ave had to go back to the legacy-kmod because something broke it in the last couple of weeks. Was using the new one fine until then. Unfortunately I didnt know it was broken as have been working remotely and thus not in front of the machine. But I doubt that the Radeon stopped being supported soehow - that would be mentioned somewhere surely ? It looks like a hang on loading the module to me. -pete.
On Apr 18, 2019, at 8:01 AM, Pete French <petefrench at ingresso.co.uk> wrote:> >> I have a radeon graphics card, too. Recently, I had a problem with the >> graphics/drm-kmod hanging on boot in multi-user. My fix was to switch >> to graphics/drm-legacy-kmod, which at least lets the system boot again. >> I figure the newer graphics/drm-kmod no longer supports my old radeon >> card. > > So, I was about to post about this, and then saw this thread. I too ave > had to go back to the legacy-kmod because something broke it in the last > couple of weeks. Was using the new one fine until then. Unfortunately I > didnt know it was broken as have been working remotely and thus not in > front of the machine. But I doubt that the Radeon stopped being supported > soehow - that would be mentioned somewhere surely ? It looks like a hang > on loading the module to me.As of yesterday, the graphics/drm-fbsd12.0-kmod port is working for me[1]. This is good news because a) the video quality is better, and, b) it supports colour, which graphics/drm-legacy-kmod didn't seem to. (So now I get a green status bar again in tmux.) In other words, it may be that whatever broke in graphics/drm-kmod has now been fixed? Cheers, Paul. [1] At least working in FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE r346597.
Just to follow up on this thread from April, where people were talking about graphics/drm-kmod hanging on boot with an older Radeon card. I had the same issue and have bene using graphics/drm-legacy-kmod since then, but the changes to the Linux KPI which have come into STABLE in the last few days, and the newer version of the DRM pot, seem to have fixed the issue and I am now back to using the modern drivers. Worth a try for those people who were also having the same issue (sorry, I dont have much of the original thread to hand and I can't remember who you were) -pete.