Thank you very much for this. I just upgraded an old PC with a Ryzen 5600g on an MSI board. I installed FreeBSD 13.1 release and got nowhere trying to get
X to work until I found your message. You explained what you'd learned clearly and completely, which brought an hour or two of frustration to...
I am well aware of f2fs. I much prefer the well-proven UFS/soft-updates approach for my use. And this was not my only reason for my preference for FreeBSD vs Linux; it was not the determining factor.
As for being able to take file-system snapshots with Linux, look what you suggested -- LVM...
I am a retired software developer/manager with a lot of hands-on OS experience, especially in the scheduling and memory-management areas.
I have a checkered history with FreeBSD. I've tried multiple times over many years to use the system and have always run into show-stopping problems. And I...
Since installing xf86-video-ati at the suggestion of Vull and GrahamPerrin, I have rebooted my system several times without incident and with correct resolution in X. The radeonkms kernel module is also installed, loaded by kld_list="radeonkms" in rc.conf.
In an early post to this thread, I...
FYI, the xf86-video-ati package was *not* installed on my system during all the thrashing about we've been discussing. I have now installed it. I shut the system down (power off) after doing so and rebooted. The system came up without incident. Only one data point, but a tiny bit encouraging...
I'll try your suggestions. I'd like to find a reliable workaround for this bug, because once it's up, the system works well on this machine.
No problem with your eye-sight -- I forgot to include it in my previous message. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=259019
I posted a bug report about this yesterday. When writing it, I consulted /var/log/messages. There *is* a panic -- a page-fault in the kernel. A stack trace is included, courtesy the kernel debugger.
But things have changed this morning. I shut my system down last night. I attempted to reboot it...
Albert Einstein once said "In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice."
Your theory conforms to what the rc.conf man page says. But at least in my practice, it does not work. As I've said multiple times in this thread, the system crashes on boot. And by crash, I mean a freeze...
Very interesting. Using the absolute path does work, contrary to what it says in the man page, which I quote again:
kld_list (str) A whitespace-separated list of kernel modules to load
right after the local disks are mounted, without any .ko
extension or...
Wrong. From 'man rc.conf':
"
kld_list (str) A whitespace-separated list of kernel modules to load
right after the local disks are mounted, without any .ko <<<<<<<<<----------------------
extension or path. Loading modules at this point in the boot...
Really?? After 57 years of writing code, 44 of them professionally, I'm surprised to learn this. I thought you could just type any old thing at it and it would Do What I Mean :)
Seriously, I checked this carefully. I'm no youngster but I can still type 'radeonkms' and verify that's what I...
dmesg: CPU: AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (2900.29-MHz K8-class CPU)
Linux lspci: [AMD/ATI] Sumo [Radeon 6550d]
Yes, I tried installing xf86-video-ati. No help.
After a tour of the other BSDs on the machine in question with very mixed results, I changed my mind and decided to revisit this. I've found a workaround that seems to be reliable. I have no idea why it works, but so far, so good (perhaps like the old joke about the guy passing the 50th floor...
Thanks for the explanation of how FreeBSD got to this point. I've focused on the weakness of the documentation, but it sounds like there are serious problems with what the project has done with the code.
My gpu needs the radeon stuff, not amdgpu. Go back through this thread and you'll see that...
The drivers don't seem to evolve faster than OpenBSD's documentation, or Slackware Linux's, or ArchLinux's or Dragonfly's or NetBSD's. All of those system have been tested by me on the same hardware that we've been discussing here and I've had zero problems with X setup and its documentation...
I'd appreciate your showing us where the Handbook says that.
For example, direct quote from the Handbook:
"The Xorg configuration process is now complete. Xorg may be now started with the startx(1) utility. The Xorg server may also be started with the use of xdm(1)."
I run my systems with...
I just rebooted twice. First time, I logged in as root on the console tty. kldload radeonkms killed the system (as I said before, it's unresponsive, but I should add that I can't ping it from another machine on the same LAN). I reset the system and rebooted and tried again, this time logging in...
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