Is there a Graphics Card compatibility list for FreeBSD 13.2 somewhere

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mnd999

I’m particularly interested in AMD cards, but it seems like it would be a generally useful thing to have.
 
Currently, DRM drivers aren't part of FreeBSD base but available as a separate port/package: graphics/drm-kmod. This automatically installs the version recommended for your FreeBSD version, for 13.x it is graphics/drm-510-kmod. Have a look there and you kind of have your answer: It's the code from Linux 5.10, so anything supported on Linux 5.10 will be supported on FreeBSD 13.x.
 
There is a page in the wiki for AMD

Not sure if it's updated regularly, if I am not mistaken the RX 6900 & RX 6800 are supported as well now but there are not present in the list yet, but apart from that it gives us a good overview of what is supported by FreeBSD, at least for AMD.
 
gotnull said:
Not sure if it's updated regularly
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This page is wildly out of date, just have a look at its history: with the exception of one card added to the list in 2022, the whole content dates back to 2018. While models listed there should still work, it's definitely not a good reference to check whether recent hardware is supported.
 
bsduck said:
This page is wildly out of date, just have a look at its history: with the exception of one card added to the list in 2022, the whole content dates back to 2018. While models listed there should still work, it's definitely not a good reference to check whether recent hardware is supported.
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It looks like it misses few references indeed, the last 4 years.

Styrsven said:
Knowing that FreeBSD supports drivers from linux 5.10, this page https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU is usable to find what AMD graphics card is supported.
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How do we know which kernel this page refers to ?
For me it only lists the cards supported by amdgpu but may be I missed the point, I am not a Gentoo user.
 
In the table under "Feature support" you see a list of cards with footnotes. Most footnotes mentions minimum linux kernel versions.
From that list (and posts in this forum), it looks like the RX6*00 series is not supported yet.
I use an RX5600 card and it works fine.
 
FWIW, graphics/drm-515-kmod recently appeared (based on Linux 5.15), but so far it only works on 14-CURRENT. This is most likely because of additional things required in the FreeBSD kernel's "linuxkpi" (in-kernel Linux-compatible interface) that aren't available on the 13-branches yet. I can't tell whether they might appear in later 13.x versions....
 
Styrsven said:
In the table under "Feature support" you see a list of cards with footnotes. Most footnotes mentions minimum linux kernel versions.
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Ha yes thank you I missed it.

I don't think the Gentoo wiki page is 100% accurate for FreeBSD because:
Styrsven said:
Knowing that FreeBSD supports drivers from linux 5.10
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Navi (RX 5500, RX 5500 XT, RX 5600, RX 5600 XT, RX 5700, RX 5700 XT) Requires at least kernel 5.3
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But you said yourself that you have a working RX 5600 card.

Styrsven said:
From that list (and posts in this forum), it looks like the RX6*00 series is not supported yet.
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DCN 3.0 (RX 6600, RX 6600 XT, RX 6700, RX 6700 XT, RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, RX 6900 XT) RX 6*00 series since kernel 5.9.12
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But there is at least one user currently using a RX 6900 XT card.
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I'm thinking about building a new desktop PC, and I was wondering if anyone here has a preference based on what has been proven to work well and be reliable for them in FreeBSD. It will likely be a Ryzen 9 series cpu, with specs close +/- of a nvidia rtx 3070 for the video card. The sad thing is...
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All in all it gives an idea of what's working for Linux, but for FreeBSD the situation looks a bit different, there are some exceptions it seems.

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Sorry do not pay attention to this post, like bsduck said I got confused with 5.1 and 5.10
I let the post as it is.
 
Styrsven said:
In the table under "Feature support" you see a list of cards with footnotes. Most footnotes mentions minimum linux kernel versions.
From that list (and posts in this forum), it looks like the RX6*00 series is not supported yet.
I use an RX5600 card and it works fine.
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RX 6700 XT, 6600 should be supported by now under FreeBSD's graphics/drm-kmod... But not 6500/6400. It is a bit of a pain to correlate driver names like navy_flounder or dimgrey_cavefish to GPU model names you see on the box. And - what are you doing dragging Linux in? FreeBSD has a pretty different way of setting up the GPU's, and Linux commands won't work.
 
All entries in the https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/AMD-GPU-Matrix except two are 5 years old (according to the info link on that page).
I believe most people looking for FreeBSD graphics support are looking for support for a newer card.
RX6700XT and 6600 are supported in drm-515-kmod which is only available in FreeBSD 14.
And the table is just for cross-referencing card with Linux kernel version to see if the available drm-kmod version supports it.
 
I eventually got it working. I have a Navi 23 (aka 6600XT aka DIMGREY CAVEFISH) and it does work with sway on 14-CURRENT with drm-515-kmod:

markspc kernel: [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (DIMGREY_CAVEFISH 0x1002:0x73FF 0x1458:0x2338 0xC1).
 
It looks like we need an updated list of working graphics. I am myself using a nvidia gtx-1080. But I consider upgrading. An updated list might be useful to many users.

I am normally not asking for others to do something. But this one is needed to ensure proper support
 
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