Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:15:40 -0300 From: ralph <ralph@riseup.net> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware assisted video decoding on Radeon KMS driver? Message-ID: <20180218191540.13680d45@rebel> 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 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:25:40 +0000 tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> 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/ > I managed to dim the screen by loading the acpi_video module, then: # sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness=<value> Trying the brightness fn keys doesn't work, but gives me the following system message: can't evaluate \134_SB_.PCI0.VGA_.LCDD._BQC - AE_NOT_FOUND The acpi_asus and acpi_asus_wmi modules do not seem to work at all. I'll probably look further into this at a later time, but since I usually only change the brightness once a day or so, it's not a big issue. -- ralph
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