I am trying to get the discreet AMD R7 M370 video working on my Dell Latitude e5570. I have been using the Intel video without much issue for a while, but decided that I want to go ahead and try to get the AMD working instead - why miss out on the performance when battery life isn't a big issue for me, right? I primarily use the laptop plugged into power.
I recently installed 13.1-RC1, and have installed graphics/drm-kmod and graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod from ports. When I modify /etc/rc.conf to include
, the drm driver and firmware load fine, with no error messages in dmesg.
I installed x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu from ports, and attempt to start X. This is where the troubles begin.
At first, running
Running
Leaving at the configured file or manually assigning amdgpu to Card1, running
Examining the log file, there is an error "Number of creates screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed."
Any suggestions on how I can get the AMD GPU to work instead of using the Intel GPU?
I recently installed 13.1-RC1, and have installed graphics/drm-kmod and graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod from ports. When I modify /etc/rc.conf to include
Code:
kld_list="/boot/modules/amdgpu.ko"I installed x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu from ports, and attempt to start X. This is where the troubles begin.
At first, running
starx or Xorg -configure would crash the entire system and cause a reboot. I examined /var/log/Xorg.0.log and noticed that it was still trying to load the Intel driver. I uninstalled x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel and now the entire system does not crash, but X still will not load and gives me the "Cannot run in framebuffer mode" error.Running
Xorg -configure lists only scfg, modesetting, and vesa as available video drivers, and gives an error "Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices." It does generate an xorg.conf.new, with two device, two monitor and two screen sections. Card0 is the BusID "PCI:0:2:0", which pciconf -lv identifies as the Intel VGA, and Card1 is BusID "PCI:1:0:0" which is identified as the AMD VGA. The generated file assigns Screen0 and Monitor0 to Card0, and Screen1 and Monitor1 to Card1. It has assigned the modesetting driver to both video cards. I copied the generated file to /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf.Leaving at the configured file or manually assigning amdgpu to Card1, running
startx results in a "No screens found" error. Examining the log file, there is an error "Number of creates screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed."
Any suggestions on how I can get the AMD GPU to work instead of using the Intel GPU?
