From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 30 05:33:04 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8896830 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 05:33:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x22c.google.com (mail-qc0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C9181379 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 05:33:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f172.google.com with SMTP id c9so4316573qcz.3 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:33:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=OHp/oZvhF9eNtyyK/UvdG7krykWWL63yMDYTjSQveWs=; b=rR7EAHHvyxBtV3yGUFOGxeiMj26HifERhpX6++EvWt2a1ievISmcIA2bgGDMp2W4UV s9d4XcJl6M5iNnKN163PmjlG1c+1CHLtIec2sMPfQUcM6nYhhnCwVuFEV6ZhcS5ivg8A LUbpgsuGqBO2so6q4kAN48pLgxLYc4xK21v1ZMWXlGX0eVqweC81R9eB23vUAsnuzdl9 eYB1tMpRiCcg0d/oW8XwCCge2zvtrInupD5JdZ94SrLJSgX1CIhaGuTaUzrOKjBonD62 X/Ydyi5mndQn0vcBu+m1wFPi0SoBE//8wIp8LQbJSkR2y9A2h/xevhF7fY4MQ0LzxyJn cWJg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.104.8 with SMTP id m8mr18723904qao.87.1391059983719; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:33:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.96.88.33 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:33:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:33:03 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: What driver (and how) to use for Radeon HD 6950 these days From: Paul Schiro To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 05:33:04 -0000 Hi all... been an avid FreeBSD user since about 2.1.5... but its been a very long time since I've tried to run it as a desktop. Am now running FreeBSD 10-STABLE (subversion'd and make world'd as of several hours ago) on my home desktop on the second hard drive... To cut to the chase, I have a Radeon HD 6950 [ATI RV970].. after much struggle, I've settled on using the "ati" driver for now, since its the first thing I've been able to get to work. My question is: what is the best driver to be using now? I tried for quite a while to get drm2 to work but had no luck there (though documentation seems to be extremely sparse... please point me at any you know of if it actually exists). Is there anything other than "ati" that may work for this video card (note: i don't particularly care about 3D support, but sure, great if that works too), and any pointers on how to get it up and running? Thanks in advance for any answers/comments/abuse. ;) -- Regards, Paul Schiro 720.280.7023