Solved Xorg fails to load video driver

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Len Huppe

Installed xorg along with gnome3, gnome-desktop and gdm but xorg fails to start. The video card is an AMD Radeon 6450. There are no error messages on the console so I looked at the log file:

Code: 
Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)

Tried creating a driver config file:
Code: 
/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/driver-radeon.conf
----
Section "Device"
    Identifier "Card0"
    Driver "radeon"
EndSection

And then I got:
Code: 
Failed to load module "radeon" (module does not exist, 0)

Did I miss a step?
 
I installed xf86-video-ati and the system is trying to load xorg at bootup.

Unfortunately xorg crashes with a segmentation fault:

Code: 
RADEON(0): Setting screen physical size to 338 x 270
Backtrace:
[    15.825] (EE) 0: /usr/local/bin/X (OsInit+0x37a) [0x5ace0a]
[    15.826] (EE) 1: /lib/libthr.so.3 (_pthread_sigmask+0x544) [0x8025f7db4]
[    15.827] (EE) 2: /lib/libthr.so.3 (_pthread_getspecific+0xe12) [0x8025f7b82]
[    15.828] (EE) 3: ? (?+0xe12) [0x7fffffffffa5]
[    15.829] (EE) 4: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so (_init+0x433f0) [0x8065a0080]
[    15.830] (EE) 5: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so (_init+0x3e813) [0x806596943]
[    15.831] (EE) 6: /usr/local/bin/X (xf86LoadModules+0x152) [0x4800d2]
[    15.833] (EE) 7: /usr/local/bin/X (CompositeRegisterImplicitRedirectionException+0x2242) [0x4cea32]
[    15.834] (EE) 8: /usr/local/bin/X (InitRootWindow+0x15) [0x467cb5]
[    15.835] (EE) 9: /usr/local/bin/X (remove_fs_handlers+0x551) [0x43b641]
[    15.836] (EE) 10: /usr/local/bin/X (_start+0x95) [0x425145]
[    15.837] (EE) 11: ? (?+0x95) [0x800835095]
[    15.837] (EE)
[    15.837] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x4
[    15.837] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[    15.837] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[    15.837] (EE)
 
You also need to install the drm driver:
pkg install drm-kmod
Then sysrc kld_list="/boot/modules/radeonkms.ko"
 
The drm-kmod post-install message says that EFI boot cannot be enabled.
Empirical testing confirms that as my system won't even finish booting.
EFI boot is not a necessity so I will reinstall with BIOS boot and try again.

Thanks!
 
Just ordered a Netgate SG-3100 router running pfSense.
It will be simpler than building a whitebox system.

Meanwhile I will use the system in question as a file server.
That is its primary function anyways.

FreeBSD rocks!
 
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