I have been running FreeBSD 11.2 for a while on my desktop (initially installed FreeBSD 10 and always upgraded with freebsd-update).
Today I did a
After upgrading to 12.0-RELEASE (I followed the official documentation) the problem was still there. So, I suppose some package configuration has changed and I need to adapt my configuration files. By following the information contained in this thread, I have added
in /etc/rc.conf (still, I haven't found out why this was not necessary on FreeBSD 11.2).
I have also re-installed all packages with
After a reboot, the graphical desktop starts again but with the reduced resolution of 1024x768 pixels.
The Mate display tool (under System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Displays) does not offer any resolution higher than that even though I had used a higher resolution with previous versions of FreeBSD.
Here is the information regarding my graphics card, as reported by
Has anyone experienced a similar problem? Do I have to change some other settings in order to have my graphics card's full resolution again?
EDIT
I seem to have solved the problem but I am confused by the solution. I have replaced the
package drm-fbsd12.0-kmod with drm-fbsd11.2-kmod, and I have the higher resolution of 1440x900 pixels back.
However, is this a regression in drm-fbsd12.0-kmod that I can expect to be fixed in the future, or does the new package require different settings?
And also: is it OK to use the older 11.2 package with FreeBSD 12, or is there a chance that it will eventually stop working?
Today I did a
pkg upgrade
while still on FreeBSD 11.2 and after a reboot I could not start X (I used Mate + Slim). So I looked at the FreeBSD homepage and noticed that version 12.0 has been released a while ago so I thought that upgrading might solve the problem. I did not think much about it actually, because my experience up to now is that I could upgrade FreeBSD with freebsd-update very smoothly.After upgrading to 12.0-RELEASE (I followed the official documentation) the problem was still there. So, I suppose some package configuration has changed and I need to adapt my configuration files. By following the information contained in this thread, I have added
Code:
kld_list="/boot/modules/radeonkms.ko"
I have also re-installed all packages with
pkg upgrade -f
.After a reboot, the graphical desktop starts again but with the reduced resolution of 1024x768 pixels.
The Mate display tool (under System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Displays) does not offer any resolution higher than that even though I had used a higher resolution with previous versions of FreeBSD.
Here is the information regarding my graphics card, as reported by
pciconf -lv vgapci0@pci0:1:5:0
:
Code:
vgapci0@pci0:1:5:0: class=0x030000 card=0x83881043 chip=0x96161002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
device = 'RS780L [Radeon 3000]'
class = display
subclass = VGA
Has anyone experienced a similar problem? Do I have to change some other settings in order to have my graphics card's full resolution again?
EDIT
I seem to have solved the problem but I am confused by the solution. I have replaced the
package drm-fbsd12.0-kmod with drm-fbsd11.2-kmod, and I have the higher resolution of 1440x900 pixels back.
However, is this a regression in drm-fbsd12.0-kmod that I can expect to be fixed in the future, or does the new package require different settings?
And also: is it OK to use the older 11.2 package with FreeBSD 12, or is there a chance that it will eventually stop working?