amd vega and radeon series vga card driver for FreeBSD 12.1 and 12.2 tutorial for beginner[update 2020-12-16]

[Sevendogsbsd]

I just install the drm-kmod package and xf86-video-amdgpu. I add the appropriate entry to /etc/rc.conf. I do no other configuration and the system just works. This is a desktop PC though, not a laptop. I only have an RX570 so can't speak to any other models or laptops as I do not use a laptop with FreeBSD.

 

[cabriofahrer]

I do not intend to run a laptop either. I am asking because I might be interested in buying a Desktop AMD GPU with vega in the furture.

 

[zeising@]

Be aware that the drm-v5.0-fbsd12.1 branch is not supported, and not guaranteed to work. There were a couple of regressions with the 5.0 branch, which is why both drm-current-kmod (for current) and drm-fbsd12.0-kmod (for FreeBSD 12.x) are stuck with Linux 4.16 code. If you need newer drivers, it is probably best to run FreeBSD current and use drm-devel-kmod.

 

[roper]

I do not intend to run a laptop either. I am asking because I might be interested in buying a Desktop AMD GPU with vega in the furture.

I've purchased a B550 motherboard and am awaiting a Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G ordered from China. I'll let you know how vega works out when it arrives.

 

[zeising@]

I've purchased a B550 motherboard and am awaiting a Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G ordered from China. I'll let you know how vega works out when it arrives.

I believe this should be supported when using a recent FreeBSD CURRENT ant the lastest drm-kmod and gpu-firmware-kmod updates.

 

[hodong]

I've purchased a B550 motherboard and am awaiting a Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G ordered from China. I'll let you know how vega works out when it arrives.

I am an AMD 3000G user. I installed FreeBSD 13-CURRENT and graphics/drm-current-kmod, x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu to use X window.

 

[roper]

I am an AMD 3000G user. I installed FreeBSD 13-CURRENT and drm-current-kmod, xf86-video-amdgpu to use X window.

I've received the cpu and assembled the box. I installed FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE which went very well. I encountered an issue in that the memstick from which I installed wasn't recognized as bootable when plugged into any USB 3.0 port but was recognized from a USB 2.0 port from which I completed the installation. I've been reading about bectl and boot environments and intend to try out Xorg with xf86-video-amdgpu when I'm confident that I can roll back to a RELEASE version without error. As of today I'm quite pleased with this cpu even without taking advantage of the gpu cores.

 

[WCSN]

This solution work in 12.2 ... but need correct errors (simple) compiling.

 

[jardows]

This solution work in 12.2 ... but need correct errors (simple) compiling.

Can you give some more details? I need this driver for my video card on my desktop (I don't want to run -CURRENT and the 4.16 drivers do not work). I'm running into a compile error, but as I am not that experienced with debugging compilation errors, really don't know what to do next.

 

[WCSN]

Can you give some more details? I need this driver for my video card on my desktop (I don't want to run -CURRENT and the 4.16 drivers do not work). I'm running into a compile error, but as I am not that experienced with debugging compilation errors, really don't know what to do next

You need to correct the source code for the errors that the compiler produces - comment out the calls and function declarations in .h .cpp files. Which ones are visible during compilation. Unfortunately, I didn't make a patch.

 

[jardows]

You need to correct the source code for the errors that the compiler produces - comment out the calls and function declarations in .h .cpp files. Which ones are visible during compilation. Unfortunately, I didn't make a patch.

Yeah, that's getting pretty far outside of my current skill level. I've never managed to make it much past "Hello World" in any C programming tutorials. But I have made great strides in learning POSIX shell scripting, so there's hope for me yet!

 

[WCSN]

Yeah, that's getting pretty far outside of my current skill level. I've never managed to make it much past "Hello World" in any C programming tutorials. But I have made great strides in learning POSIX shell scripting, so there's hope for me yet!

Ок.
1. Download FreeBSD source. (if not have this...)
svn checkout http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/12.2/ /usr/src
2. Go first page this theme and make instructions... (if not make...) without download and make drv... kms-drm-drm-v5.0-fbsd12.1.zip
m.b. need install pkg install linux-c7-7.8.2003 and m.b. need download firmware https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-firmware/archive/master.zip)
3. get from attache kms-drm-drm-v5.0-fbsd12.1_modify.tar.xz (my modify).
4. unpack and make and make install this.
5. kldload amdgpu
if you run command kldstat must see few amdgpu_*.ko (firmware )
6. reboot ... and load X and DE

 

[Raffeale]

look at this thread,up up up.

 

[Minzord]

Hello, it's normal that I don't support brightness management ?

I use FreeBSD 13.0-BETA3

CPU: Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: N/A
Speed: 2096 MHz min/max: 1400/2100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): No speed data found for 8 cores.

Graphics: Message: No Device data found.
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.35.0 13.0-BETA3 LLVM 10.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.3

Without xf86-video-ati xorg switched to modesetting.

Have a nice day

 

[Raffeale]

Hello, it's normal that I don't support brightness management ?

I use FreeBSD 13.0-BETA3



Without xf86-video-ati xorg switched to modesetting.

Have a nice day

it's normal in freebsd 12.2, maybe the driver did not support it. it cant change brightness with shortcut key even if I load acpi_video driver. I use other method change brightness in freebsd 12.2

 

[Minzord]

it's normal in freebsd 12.2, maybe the driver did not support it. it cant change brightness with shortcut key even if I load acpi_video driver. I use other method change brightness in freebsd 12.2

I am on FreeBSD 13.0 but I would like to have the method.