Have WX 3200 Radeon graphics card -- cannot get X11 session to work

[Deucher, Alexander]

[AMD Official Use Only - General]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Bulley <web at umich.edu>
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2024 4:19 PM
> To: Deucher, Alexander <Alexander.Deucher at amd.com>
> Cc: amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: Have WX 3200 Radeon graphics card -- cannot get X11 session to
> work
>
> According to "Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher at amd.com> on Fri,
> 01/26/24 at 15:50:
> >
> > [Public]
> >
> > Kernel driver looks like its loaded properly.
> >
> > I don't really have much experience with freebsd, but it doesn't seem
> > to be able to open the kernel driver.  Perhaps X starts before the
> > kernel driver has finished loading?  Can you try and load the kernel driver and
> then start X?
>
> After sending this and researching the forums some more, I made a few
> changes and have had some success, but not quite there yet...
>
> Using what I found in the forums I now have this one file in my
> /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory:
>
> unix% cat /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-driver.conf
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "Card0"
>         Driver          "amdgpu"
>         BusID           "PCI:41:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> I got to this point today after learning about this the other day:
>
> unix# pciconf -lv | grep -A4 vgapci
> vgapci0 at pci0:41:0:0:    class=0x030000 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x1002
> device=0x6981 subvendor=0x1002 subdevice=0x0b0d
>     vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
>     device     = 'Lexa XT [Radeon PRO WX 3200]'
>     class      = display
>     subclass   = VGA
>
> I am not loading any relevant modules in my /boot/loader.conf file.
>
> This line was added to my /etc/rc.conf file:
>
>    kld_list="amdgpu"
>
> I felt the amdgpu driver would support my WX 3200 (RS780) graphics card,
> and after a reboot, I was proved correct.  Previously I was starting my
> x11 session using the "startx" command from the vt0 virtual terminal.
>
> Just minutes ago I logged into the virtual terminal vt2 on this system as a non-
> root user.  There I entered the "startx" command and I was completly
> surprised by the beautiful x11 session that appeared!!!
>
> Unfortunately, the mouse pointer is frozen at the exact center of the
> 3440 x 1440 monitor, and it will not move.  I don't know how to fix this.  Any
> help or ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Make sure you have OS mouse and keyboard drivers loaded and configured within your X config?

Alex