On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 07:43:03PM +0000, Timothy Legge wrote:
> @Maurice, Don't worry about teaching me to suck eggs, I'd rather cover all
> the bases :)
> 
> I've run "fw_update -a"  to ensure that the drivers are installed and where
> they need to be. (Bit overkill I know, but I'd rather be sure at this
> point.)
> As for support from the Radeon driver as linked above, it falls under the
> "OLAND Radeon HD 8000 series".

The radeon code in the kernel is derived from Linux 3.8, support for
the OLAND family wasn't added till 3.9.

> It's almost as though the kernel forgets to add "radeondrm0 at vga1" and
> "drm0 at radeondrm0" as seen on other dmesg from systems with Radeon cards.
> I can't help shake the sense that the fix to this is going to be something
> rather simple, and I'm just too stupid to figure it out! :)
> 
> On 18 November 2017 at 19:14, Maurice McCarthy <mansel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I assume the radeon firmware is in /etc/firmware. If not download
> > http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/6.2/radeondrm-firmware-20150927.tgz
> > and untar it in that directory. (Sorry if I'm teaching granny to suck
> > eggs.)
> >
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