freebsd stable - Oct 2018 - Latest update to ATI driver broke in same way as using DRM-next did

I am using drm-next, but actually I ended up getting this to work by 
stripping off all packges from the machine yesterday, deleting all of 
/usr/local and starting adding things from scratch. Am now running fine 
with drm-next and all works as expected.

When I was having the issues, however, xrandr only showed one outout on 
the card, which puzzled me (there are 4 outputs).

-pete. [copying to -stable so others know the outcome]

On 16/10/2018 12:39, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 10/9/18 12:32 PM, Pete French wrote:
>> So this is kind of interesting - I posted here last month about trying
to
>> use drm-next and it not finding my 2nd monitor properly. I did try and
>> subscribe to x11@ but for some reaosn that didnt work, and I didnt
worry
>> abotu it too much so didnt investigate further as I wont be running
12.0
>> for a while.
....
> 
> Which drm driver are you using?? Is this with drm-stable, drm-next or 
> the driver in base?? Which verison of FreeBSD are you running this on? 
> What's the output from xrandr in both the working and non-working case?
> Regards

On 10/16/18 6:16 PM, Pete French wrote:
> I am using drm-next, but actually I ended up getting this to work by 
> stripping off all packges from the machine yesterday, deleting all of 
> /usr/local and starting adding things from scratch. Am now running fine 
> with drm-next and all works as expected.
> 
> When I was having the issues, however, xrandr only showed one outout on 
> the card, which puzzled me (there are 4 outputs).
> 
Good that you got it working.  I don't know exactly what changed.  One 
guess might be the updated versions of xf86-video-ati or 
xf86-video-radeon, if you are using them.
Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising