Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 13:27:36 +0000 From: Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware assisted video decoding on Radeon KMS driver? Message-ID: <606aa5f7-ae44-20e4-8023-cfb5c505f48e@gjunka.com> In-Reply-To: <b19c3711-7e02-89af-5586-06e97b00a67a@zyxst.net> References: <20180216001242.0ee00dc2@rebel> <036dbe8b-0366-9b28-076c-40c21645b313@nomadlogic.org> <b19c3711-7e02-89af-5586-06e97b00a67a@zyxst.net>
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On 16/02/2018 22:25, tech-lists wrote: > > Hi, > > I have one of these as well. Didn't know if it was accelerated or not, > used the radeonkms driver. It ran with 11-1 stable for a while, nice n > sharp screen. What made me install linux mint was the fact that I > couldn't dim the screen on freebsd. It was stuck at 100%. cpufreq > couldn't work with the chip. These two things were a bit of a > dealbreaker for me with this netbook. > > That was with 11-stable of a while ago now. I'll give 12-current and > that new drm-next-kmod a spin. > > My previous dmesg on freebsd and linux are at > https://www.zyxst.net/txt/amd-c70-netbook/ > Do you have on your laptop function keys to dim the screen? These are usually located on number keys on the keyboard. In my case I can dim the screen when I am booting the system, through BIOS, up to the screen where I can select the FreeBSD kernel. Once the NVidia driver is loaded by the kernel these function keys stop working. So I simply learned to dim the screen while booting and then it stays dimmed once the system and X11 is loaded. If that works for you then it maybe a suitable workaround. Regards GrzegorzJ
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