drm-kmod

[balanga]

Am I correct in thinking that pkg install drm-kmod installs around 800 files?

All I want is i915.kms.

 

[bda65]

18mb...

pkg list drm-66-kmod
/boot/modules/amdgpu.ko
/boot/modules/dmabuf.ko
/boot/modules/drm.ko
/boot/modules/i915kms.ko
/boot/modules/radeonkms.ko
/boot/modules/ttm.ko
/usr/local/share/licenses/drm-66-kmod-6.6.25.1500068_8/BSD2CLAUSE
/usr/local/share/licenses/drm-66-kmod-6.6.25.1500068_8/GPLv2
/usr/local/share/licenses/drm-66-kmod-6.6.25.1500068_8/LICENSE
/usr/local/share/licenses/drm-66-kmod-6.6.25.1500068_8/MIT
/usr/local/share/licenses/drm-66-kmod-6.6.25.1500068_8/catalog.m

 

[fahrenheit]

balanga, that's probably not drm-kmod but gpu-firmware-kmod, for the file count that is. You don't actually need it, just the relevant kmod files for your hardware. The meta package for intel is gpu-firmware-intel-kmod and from this the flavour that matches your hardware.

Note that installing drm-kmod without the gpu-firmware to match will result in a black screen after boot or fallback to framebuffer if you are lucky.

 

[balanga]

I have always run pkg install drm-kmod because that is what I thought I needed to do. I never understood why I received so many files, but since things worked I didn't pursue things.

 

[Beastie]

fahrenheit, balanga, you may not even need any firmware at all, depending on your CPU/GPU's age. Up to 3rd gen they were not programmable.

 

[nxjoseph@]

My internal GPU's codename is Renoir, so I install the package firmware made for my exact model graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-renoir (@renoir flavor).

graphics/drm-kmod pulls in graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod and this meta-port pulls in all the GPU firmware modules even if it's not for what you have, with the reason of compatibility i guess.

 

[T-Daemon]

If you don't want all the gpu firmware installed, check in kldstat(8) which one is loaded, delete all the others. On a system that does not yet have any GPU firmware installed, now that the required firmware has been identified, proceed to install that specific firmware only.

E.g.:

 % kldstat
17    1 0xffffffff84382000    312e0 amdgpu_renoir_asd_bin.ko
18    1 0xffffffff843b4000     c4e0 amdgpu_renoir_ta_bin.ko
19    1 0xffffffff843c1000    1fbe8 amdgpu_renoir_dmcub_bin.ko
20    1 0xffffffff843e1000     7560 amdgpu_renoir_pfp_bin.ko
21    1 0xffffffff843e9000     6560 amdgpu_renoir_me_bin.ko
22    1 0xffffffff843f0000     4560 amdgpu_renoir_ce_bin.ko
23    1 0xffffffff843f5000     bcd8 amdgpu_renoir_rlc_bin.ko
24    1 0xffffffff84401000    43800 amdgpu_renoir_mec_bin.ko
25    1 0xffffffff84445000     64e0 amdgpu_renoir_sdma_bin.ko
26    1 0xffffffff8444c000    64aa0 amdgpu_renoir_vcn_bin.ko

% pkg info | grep renoir
gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-renoir-20250109.1500068 Firmware modules for renoir AMD GPUs

 

[T-Daemon]

All I want is i915.kms.

Don't install graphics/drm-kmod, install graphics/drm-66-kmod.