From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 30 06:07:42 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 532A4213 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x231.google.com (mail-ig0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E69D15C3 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f177.google.com with SMTP id k19so6457652igc.4 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:07:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date :message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=msLaX5ALwaArxw2Rv7QYoQb4lJAcysvX7dSPS3y/gKY=; b=sBETObe13FeJ5FTk/a8MKFLwnSWSDNsQot7F6zQupSPYdds4n04SbFSOgo8NlC6Xm/ 7zLGN9noffsgpj0idrnJW8twNlv2zD3oa/LlG7WSmBerM3J5Uqb7t7U5xSYVUht+cEt/ ezQon3ZSSER8IJSCPM64jcdLbXsF+pqSlEfRdBRZaIkqCB7mSu3JsPABaYLrUSyvWBcm DVRlg60j7EqHLP5eX6QR7HYgfxPjS3GR+VrbiJ10q8x5fO1U8H+sroQXyCZxgU5dqGrx qnT2EWGdMsdVDzxz3APHJahCAxzg3G2dbPONGGNUeAg7CBSkvo5sn7Fo1+Mv1fLimKlz mG+Q== X-Received: by 10.50.27.103 with SMTP id s7mr12270963igg.33.1391062061574; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:07:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.182] (c-71-56-236-16.hsd1.co.comcast.net. [71.56.236.16]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f15sm17049494igd.3.2014.01.29.22.07.40 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:07:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: What driver (and how) to use for Radeon HD 6950 these days From: Paul Schiro To: Erich Dollansky In-Reply-To: <20140130135214.397bb406@X220.alogt.com> References: <20140130135214.397bb406@X220.alogt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:07:34 -0700 Message-ID: <1391062054.1372.7.camel@ghostwheel.tribble.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org 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 06:07:42 -0000 Thanks for the reply. On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 13:52 +0800, Erich Dollansky 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. I was -1 year old, so... > > 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 I've got the WITH_NEW_XORG and WITH_GALLIUM make.conf options in there already, and reinstalled all the xorg packages... but still had trouble getting drm2 to work.... though I just used "pkg install"... I'm thinking I have to go through the pain of building all of it in ports... the more I think on it, the more that sounds right, since make.conf options probably aren't going to do anything for prebuilt binaries... d'oh! > You also should check if this card is even supported. I use Intel at > the moment and do not know much more. Seems like it might be: $ grep 6950 /usr/src/sys/dev/drm2/drm_pciids.h {0x1002, 0x6719, CHIP_CAYMAN|RADEON_NEW_MEMMAP, "Cayman PRO [Radeon HD 6950]"}, \ Other than that, no idea how to tell for sure at present... Guess I'll try rebuilding all of xorg with those make.conf options for now. > Erich