THREAD SUMMARY: Drivers for AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT GPUs are unavailable as of May 8, 2021. However, this GPU is VESA-compatible, so using the
I'm a professional programmer with around two decades of experience using Linux as a development environment. I recently built a new PC and wanted to play around with FreeBSD. I installed X Windows per the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook, but it will not start. The logs are clear about the problem (
The contents of /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/device.conf and output from several commands recommended from the FreeBSD Wiki have been attached or are visible inline below.
I'd really like to use X on this system but I'm stumped—any ideas?
Thanks for all of your help.
-Dan
Hardware (generated from
Per SirDice's suggestion, I updated /etc/rc.conf to only load
vesa driver works as a sufficient drop-in.I'm a professional programmer with around two decades of experience using Linux as a development environment. I recently built a new PC and wanted to play around with FreeBSD. I installed X Windows per the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook, but it will not start. The logs are clear about the problem (
no screens found seems to be a smoking gun), but I don't know how to fix it or where to start. I've updated the GPU driver in /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/device.conf between amdgpu and radeon to no avail.The contents of /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/device.conf and output from several commands recommended from the FreeBSD Wiki have been attached or are visible inline below.
I'd really like to use X on this system but I'm stumped—any ideas?
Thanks for all of your help.
-Dan
Hardware (generated from
hw-probe -all -upload): https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=cbbf4f86cdPer SirDice's suggestion, I updated /etc/rc.conf to only load
amdgpu but I get a similar failure on running startx.
Code:
[dan@freebsd2021 /var/log]$ cat Xorg.0.log
[ 367.515]
X.Org X Server 1.20.11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 367.515] Build Operating System: FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE amd64
[ 367.515] Current Operating System: FreeBSD freebsd2021 13.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE #0 releng/13.0-n244733-ea31abc261f: Fri Apr 9 04:24:09 UTC 2021 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64
[ 367.515] Build Date: 15 April 2021 07:24:13AM
[ 367.515]
[ 367.515] Current version of pixman: 0.40.0
[ 367.515] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 367.515] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 367.515] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon May 3 14:22:19 2021
[ 367.515] (==) Using config directory: "/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 367.515] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 367.515] (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section.
[ 367.515] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[ 367.515] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[ 367.515] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[ 367.515] (==) No device specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
Using the first device section listed.
[ 367.515] (**) | |-->Device "Card0"
[ 367.515] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 367.516] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 367.516] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 367.516] (==) Not automatically adding GPU devices
[ 367.516] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
[ 367.516] (==) FontPath set to:
/usr/local/share/fonts/misc/,
/usr/local/share/fonts/TTF/,
/usr/local/share/fonts/OTF/,
/usr/local/share/fonts/Type1/,
/usr/local/share/fonts/100dpi/,
/usr/local/share/fonts/75dpi/,
catalogue:/usr/local/etc/X11/fontpath.d
[ 367.516] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 367.516] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[ 367.516] (II) Loader magic: 0x4359f0
[ 367.516] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 367.516] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 367.516] X.Org Video Driver: 24.1
[ 367.516] X.Org XInput driver : 24.1
[ 367.516] X.Org Server Extension : 10.0
[ 367.516] (--) PCI:*(12@0:0:0) 1002:73df:1da2:e445 rev 193, Mem @ 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xe0000000/2097152, 0xfcc00000/1048576, I/O @ 0x0000e000/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536
[ 367.516] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 367.516] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 367.516] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 367.516] compiled for 1.20.11, module version = 1.0.0
[ 367.516] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
[ 367.516] (II) LoadModule: "amdgpu"
[ 367.516] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/amdgpu_drv.so
[ 367.516] (II) Module amdgpu: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 367.516] compiled for 1.20.11, module version = 19.1.0
[ 367.516] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 367.516] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.1
[ 367.516] (II) AMDGPU: Driver for AMD Radeon:
All GPUs supported by the amdgpu kernel driver
[ 367.517] (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
[ 367.517] (--) using VT number 9
[ 367.517] (II) AMDGPU(0): [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
[ 367.517] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support
[ 367.517] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[ 367.517] (II) UnloadModule: "amdgpu"
[ 367.517] (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
[ 367.517] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 367.517] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[ 367.517] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 367.517] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 367.517] (EE)
[ 367.517] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
Code:
[dan@freebsd2021 ~]$ pkg info | grep ^x > pkginfo.txt
[dan@freebsd2021 ~]$ devinfo -vr > devinfo.txt
[dan@freebsd2021 ~]$ sudo pciconf -lvbce > pciconf.txt
[dan@freebsd2021 ~]$ dmesg > dmesg.txt
[dan@freebsd2021 ~]$ xrandr
Can't open display
[dan@freebsd2021 ~]$ sysctl hw.model
hw.model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
[dan@freebsd2021 ~]$ cat /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/device.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:10:0:0"
EndSection
[dan@freebsd2021 ~]$ startx
xauth: file /home/dan/.serverauth.54689 does not exist
X.Org X Server 1.20.11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE amd64
Current Operating System: FreeBSD freebsd2021 13.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE #0 releng/13.0-n244733-ea31abc261f: Fri Apr 9 04:24:09 UTC 2021 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64
Build Date: 15 April 2021 07:24:13AM
Current version of pixman: 0.40.0
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon May 3 13:43:34 2021
(==) Using config directory: "/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) no screens found(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
[dan@freebsd2021 ~]$ cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log Xorg.0.log.txt
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