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

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2024, William Bulley wrote:

> According to Vladimir Dergachev <volodya at mindspring.com> on Thu, 07/04/24 at 15:26:
>>
>> This depends on the card and the manufacturer. For NVidia, there are usually
>> close-sourced NVidia drivers and an open source noveau driver that might
>> take some time to catchup for a newer card.
>>
>> In contrast, AMD provides full open source drivers, and there is a release
>> page with a June 2024 release:
>>
>> https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-AMDGPU-UNIFIED-LINUX-24-10-3.html
>>
>> Since you card is around 2 years old, chances are the support is already in
>> a newer Linux release, thus I suggest you first try the latest Ubuntu
>> version on a usb stick. If this works this is good news.
>>
>> Alternatively, try installing AMD drivers from a link above.
>
> Thanks for the reply.  After I reached out to this 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 to 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.

Great that it works :)

Missed that you are running FreeBSD - nice !

Vladimir Dergachev

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