Solved Cinnamon works only in software rendering

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keeplurking

Hi,
I installed FreeBSD 13-2 and followed the handbook to install Xorg, my GPU driver (drm-kmod), the Cinnamon DE and LightDM.
Cinnamon works fine in software rendering mode but in "normal" mode I have only a black screen with my mouse cursor.
Before installing FreeBSD, I was on Arch Linux and everything worked fine so there is probably something I missed in the handbook but I can't see what.

radeonkms is loaded at boot time and dbus is enabled. I tried to launch Cinnamon with startx but the result is the same as with LightDM.

My journey on FreeBSD has just begun and I'm not used to it. ^^'

My config:
Code: 
$ pciconf -lv|grep -B4 VGA
vgapci0@pci0:0:1:0:     class=0x030000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x1002 device=0x9998 subvendor=0x1458 subdevice=0xd000
    vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
    device     = 'Richland [Radeon HD 8370D]'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA

Code: 
$ uname -a
FreeBSD aerynsun.my.domain 13.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE releng/13.2-n254617-525ecfdad597 GENERIC amd6
 
Software rendering does not use 3D hardware acceleration and is recommended when there are graphical issues.
Have you added your username to the video group?
 
VladiBG said:
Did you try with "amdgpu" driver?

docs.freebsd.org

Chapter 5. The X Window System

This chapter describes how to install and configure Xorg on FreeBSD, which provides the open source X Window System used to provide a graphical environment
docs.freebsd.org docs.freebsd.org
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I tried and the X server didn't work. I can only use the console.

CuatroTorres said:
Software rendering does not use 3D hardware acceleration and is recommended when there are graphical issues.
Have you added your username to the video group?
Click to expand...
I added my username in the group video as it is said in the manual after installing Xorg.
 
Thanks for the link. A bit hard to understand but I think I got it.
I'll just stop for today because I searched a looooong time and reading/writing english is tiring my brain as it is not my language. x)
Tomorrow, I'll try to change DRI3 to DRI2 in xorg.conf or the login.conf sentenv-something stuff and I will give you the result.
 
Here we go !
A coffee, a check in the xorg.conf manual and your link, and it finally works.
The fix :
pkg install xf-86-video-ati, then
Code: 
vi /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-radeon.conf

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Card0"
    Driver "radeon"
    Option "DRI" "2"
EndSection

Thanks a lot for the help : D
 
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