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From: Vincent Stemen <vince.bsd@hightek.org>
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Subject: Re: ATI video problem - slow desktop - 100% cpu load [semi-solved]
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 07:53:42PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 06/23/18 00:40, Mark Saad wrote:
> > Vincent
> >    I used the scfb driver in openbsd land for a work project
> >    . Currently I am using 11-STABLE with the Radeon driver but at
> >    one point I had a different card under 11.0 that didn???t work
> >    unless I used the scfb driver .
> 
> Hi!
> If you are using FreeBSD 11.2 or later (stable or current) you should be 
> able to use graphics/drm-stable-kmod and get acceleration with your ATI 
> video cards.  Please try it out!
> Regards
> -- 
> Niclas

Thanks for the info.  I'll make note of it for when I get a chance to
upgrade.  Right now, I am still running 11.1.

Vince