On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 05:13:23PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > Ken, > > Right before the 60 second delay I get a error regarding "firmware direct > load failed with error code -2". Could this be why my penguins aren't > showing up? And for the penguins, do I have to enable the ATI Radeon option > in the Framebuffer drivers and/or Generic VESA Framebuffer driver? > > Douglas R. Reno
I've not seen that message - google has a couple of results, but nothing useful in them. Maybe you only get it if you don't build the firmware into the kernel, I'm not sure. On a radeon running 3.16.0-rc6, and with firmware built into the kernel, the following settings look relevant for the penguins: # # Direct Rendering Manager # CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y CONFIG_DRM_TTM=y CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y CONFIG_FB=y and perhaps also (I'm running with these) CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY=y and your choice from CONFIG_LOGO=y CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO=y CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y FWIW, my firmware settings on this RS780 in 3.16-rc are as follows, and I do not pretend to fully understand all of them (other than knowing that I have to put the specified bin files in /lib/firmware/radeon/ to build it like this, and also that your firmware requirements are differnet from mine. # # Generic Driver Options # [...] CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R600_rlc.bin radeon/RS780_pfp.bin radeon/RS780_me.bin" CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y That last one is the one which apparently changed in 3.16, and which might break things on recent systems. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
