Does xorg/X11 support Rembrandt [Radeon 680M] from AMD/ATI?

[Pete Wright]

On 7/5/24 11:47, William Bulley wrote:
> According to Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> on Fri, 07/05/24 at 13:53:
>> your best first step might be to see when this driver became available in
>> the linux kernel.  freebsd has several drivers that track various linux kernel
>> versions.  i think the current linux kernel versions would  are 5.10, 5.15, and
>> 6.1.
>>
>> if it's available in one of those versions then chances are pretty good you
>> can get it running on freebsd.
> Thanks for the reply, Pete.  After I reached out to the xorg list, and
> after doing some (inconclusive) research on this topic -- and my
> ignorance of AMD, I found out my problem: the FreeBSD handbook says
> to add kld_list="amdgpu" to the /etc/rc.conf file, but I missed two
> additional steps needed (may be in a different section of the handbook)
> which were to add two ports:
>
>     graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod
>     x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu
>
> Once I built and installed those two ports, Xorg/x11 graphics worked
> flawlessly on the Thinkpad T16.  Thanks again for your information.


oh glad to hear it.  those steps should be covered here in the Handbook:
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x-graphic-card-drivers

If they aren't clear or confusing though I think feedback would be 
appreciated so we can make the documentation easier for other users too!

cheers,

-pete

-- 
Pete Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org