Solved AMD Graphics query

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balanga

I'm trying to get graphics working properly on an old HP laptop running FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE and can't work out which driver to install.

Looking at https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics

there is a section on AMD Graphics which says:

Unlike the i915 Intel graphics driver, two modules exist for AMD hardware:

  • amdgpu
  • radeonkms
It also says the amdgpu module is for post-HD7000 or Tahiti GPUs.

pciconf -lv tells me:-

device = 'Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics]'

I presume mine is an older module but not sure how to tell so I installed drm-kmod and my /etc/rc.conf contains
Code: 
kld_list="/boot/modules/amdgpu0.ko"

Initially when booting the display driver switched half way through but no longer does so. Has the driver failed to load for some reason?
 
Remove the path and the .ko extension. It's also called amdgpu, not amdgpu0.

Code: 
kld_list="amdgpu"
 
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