X server not starting on laptop (Asus K53Z) since upgrading to FreeBSD 14.1

[floatmygoat]

Hi there,

When starting the X server, I get a completely blank screen and nothing else happens. When I do manage to get out, I get these errors:

Feb 11 20:37:47 catwarmer40 kernel: drmn0: ring 3 stalled for more than 10000msec
Feb 11 20:37:47 catwarmer40 kernel: drmn0: GPU lockup (current fence id 0x0000000000000000 last fence id 0x0000000000000001 on ring 3)
Feb 11 20:37:47 catwarmer40 kernel: drmn0: ring 3 stalled for more than 10502msec
Feb 11 20:37:47 catwarmer40 kernel: drmn0: GPU lockup (current fence id 0x0000000000000000 last fence id 0x0000000000000002 on ring 3)
Feb 11 20:37:47 catwarmer40 kernel: drmn0: ring 3 stalled for more than 11004msec
Feb 11 20:37:47 catwarmer40 kernel: drmn0: GPU lockup (current fence id 0x0000000000000000 last fence id 0x0000000000000002 on ring 3)
Feb 11 20:37:47 catwarmer40 kernel: drmn0: ring 3 stalled for more than 11505msec
Feb 11 20:37:47 catwarmer40 kernel: drmn0: GPU lockup (current fence id 0x0000000000000000 last fence id 0x0000000000000002 on ring 3)

This doesn't stop (seconds simply keep on counting), not even when killing all related processes. The only way around it is shutting the entire system.
Could this be an issue with the driver (radeonkms)? I tried reinstalling the driver and selecting a different one but this too didn't help much.

Additionally, when I was still on FreeBSD 14.0, Wine was extremely slow (and some other small things, but I'll leave those for another day). Maybe this was related?


Please let me know if you need any more info (I didn't want to bombard this post with a bunch of files). Thank you!!

 

[nxjoseph@]

Hi,

Can you show output of the command below?

pkg info -x -g \*kmod

 

[floatmygoat]

Yes of course, it's the following:


drm-61-kmod-6.1.92.1401000_3
drm-kmod-20220907_3
gpu-firmware-kmod-20241114,1
libmikmod-3.3.11.1_2



 

[nxjoseph@]

You seem to have right drm module for FreeBSD 14.1.

I tried reinstalling the driver and selecting a different one but this too didn't help much.

Did you tried using graphics/drm-510-kmod or graphics/drm-515-kmod that is different than graphics/drm-61-kmod?

Could it be that your GPU is quite old, requiring you to use radeonkms? Are you able to use amdgpu instead?

 

[floatmygoat]

OK this is super weird.

Last time I tried graphics/drm-515-kmod it failed. But now I tried again (just so that I could show the output) and it suddenly works!?

I did the exact same thing as last time, so I have no idea what happened here. But it seems like this one is now solved. Thanks!!