From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 30 06:11:06 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 8311E319 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22d.google.com (mail-ie0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D64C1642 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f173.google.com with SMTP id e14so3067404iej.18 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:11:05 -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=LJOa1GCDlgsgbOjA7QJ6PT7RfCSHKUNpQXFaWxkYiyM=; b=zsRtDMUdOP6IHAOXaQqajIrVMSLKvoH4NpSuXeMv2lNcRX8G5FJaJYT2QHADnveRRV qlWGpadPG/9vG+fokbEUEdyaklUYl+JzLgnYsxLK1R9JHO0owLKWqO3IpdtmFva3FqQ8 tQq39oj6pMHW9W0tCpmIlcJXBV2kIwr2S47bvgMHT3dB6eQUzdQl7ZGuB+G/bRnVu7HE iFhJeC/QaTSsTR+sTKpyRfeDBesyiE9q+44ri5S0YpLccnZfhGwhPXoMg4hMUf/0cBjF w9/+Md9p3MvSTN119H8FkjztX3lE4R6scGbMJfh9CwcKgztzreWb8t0122ocRGira6W1 jRPg== X-Received: by 10.50.4.9 with SMTP id g9mr12659316igg.22.1391062265722; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:11:05 -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 ft2sm17071301igb.5.2014.01.29.22.11.04 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:11:05 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: What driver (and how) to use for Radeon HD 6950 these days From: Paul Schiro To: Warren Block In-Reply-To: References: <20140130135214.397bb406@X220.alogt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:11:04 -0700 Message-ID: <1391062264.1372.10.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 06:11:06 -0000 Thank you very much, Warren. Did not come across those wiki links previously, which would have been infinitely more helpful than googling or the cursory search of the maillist archive I did... I'll take a look at the wiki entries, do the needful, and report back with whatever I find on my system. On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 23:02 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:33:03 -0700 > > Paul Schiro 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.