According to Vladimir Dergachev <volo...@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. -- William Bulley E-MAIL: w...@umich.edu <w...@umich.edu>
