Re: What to do with base X11 for netbsd-9 ?

[Lars Reichardt <lars%paradoxon.info@localhost>]

* matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>:
> Lars Reichardt writes:
> > 
> > > matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> hat am 4. Juni 2019 um 07:19 geschrieben:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > unfortunately, you need the as-yet non-functional amdgpu driver
> > > i believe:
> > > 
> > > [  1594.209] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "OLAND" (ChipID = 0x6613)
> > > 
> > > means a GCN v1.  radeon supports this minimally, but the GL does
> > > not.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > .mrg.
> > 
> > afaik those GCN v1 chips are supported by radeon and have experimental
> > support via amdgpu.
> > 
> > It fails with glamor xorg disabled llvmpipe, some quick search hint in
> > the direction of mesa build options.
> > 
> > The same hardware works under Linux with both drivers accelerated.
> > 
> > The kernel driver loads the OLAND_mc2.bin firmware but fails to load
> > TAHITI_vce.bin (I guess it's for video decoding) which is missing from
> > the filesystem maybe that's causing some hickup.
> 
> ah yes - i forget how the overlaps between radeon and amdgpu
> are and this one should be (only) in radeon as 'radeonsi'.
> 
> can you try installing TAHITI_vce.bin and seeing what happens?
> it seems unlikely to be the problem.
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/radeon
> 
> if this doesn't help, we'll have to see what is up in Mesa.
> 
> 
> .mrg.

unfortunately it fails now with:
[     4.695688] radeon0: autoconfiguration error: error: VCE init error (-22).

but not complaining about the missing vce fw anymore

I'll try the modular-xorg maybe that show a different behavior and some
pointer.

Lars

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