From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Sun Feb 18 22:14:55 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B326F09F74 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:14:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralph@riseup.net) Received: from mx1.riseup.net (mx1.riseup.net [198.252.153.129]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F4C96F005 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:14:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralph@riseup.net) Received: from piha.riseup.net (piha-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44B701A0959 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:14:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=riseup.net; s=squak; t=1518992092; bh=+VQUuaeEyywW+pRkp3265Wv54z8z8EWvBQZ5sf+jhBM=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=gMI+bZh1RdkhDOiQ66yKDCm44UNJXiA3ONH2S2RtBUwaCW1LL77BUBN9puSm1Y6rS mJzCBFW7mzFSem8omk0DxJvr1BAFNgZ+UxaSaXiIdl7GaQAUZCAp2MzWroCc1Lq0OV 3aNUIUQIhTkmN95cZ6wRV+oDylg9lALwbtUBV5Qg= X-Riseup-User-ID: 6F01B42F15C5267CF6153A9D2CD5073834CBD5878B5469D48E6511536E21AAA9 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by piha.riseup.net with ESMTPSA id 63B3318FB for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:14:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:15:40 -0300 From: ralph To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware assisted video decoding on Radeon KMS driver? Message-ID: <20180218191540.13680d45@rebel> In-Reply-To: References: <20180216001242.0ee00dc2@rebel> <036dbe8b-0366-9b28-076c-40c21645b313@nomadlogic.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:14:55 -0000 On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:25:40 +0000 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/ > I managed to dim the screen by loading the acpi_video module, then: # sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness= 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