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Subject: Re: What driver (and how) to use for Radeon HD 6950 these days
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On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Erich Dollansky wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:33:03 -0700
> Paul Schiro <tribblon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all... been an avid FreeBSD user since about 2.1.5... but its been
>
> as you started this, BSD since 1979. But only for a few hours.
>
>> To cut to the chase, I have a Radeon HD 6950 [ATI RV970].. after much
>
> Ask a search engine for WITH_NEW_XORG and WITH_GALLUIM in the make.conf

Supported cards and the procedure to install KMS drivers for both Radeon 
and Intel graphics are shown on the wiki:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Tested_hardware_matrix
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Installing_KMS_Ports

> You also should check if this card is even supported. I use Intel at
> the moment and do not know much more.

The 6970 is shown as working.  That should be a dual-card version of the 
6950, but nothing beats actual testing.  Paul, it will probably work, 
but either way, please follow up so we can update the wiki.