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Date:      Sun, 30 Nov 2014 08:30:38 -0500
From:      Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Radeon troubles
Message-ID:  <547B1BFE.9060506@gmx.us>
In-Reply-To: <slrnm7l01t.1jdi.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <21626.13780.862592.172498@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <slrnm7l01t.1jdi.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>

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On 11/29/14 21:26, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2014-11-29, "John F. Carr" <jfc@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> A Radeon HD 5450 (now installed) and an older Radeon behave the
>> same. Both are PCIe cards.  The kernel says "[drm]
>> RADEON_IS_PCIE" if I start X.
> 
> The Radeon HD 5450 works.  The machine I'm typing this on has one.
> 
>> There are two problems:
>> 
>> 1. When X exits the screen never switches back to console mode.
> 
> That sounds like you might still be using syscons(4) instead of 
> vt(4).  Booting with kern.vty=vt in loader.conf(5) will get you 
> vt(4).
> 
>> 2. On a PA272W 2560x1440 monitor the image is horizontally
>> compressed
> 
> (I have no experience with that.)
> 
>> Any advice?  Configuration and logs follow.
> 
> All of which looks, as far as relevant, a lot like mine.
> 
> You don't have a 5450, though. -(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI
> Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series" (ChipID = 0x68e1) +(--) RADEON(0):
> Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 5450" (ChipID = 0x68f9)
> 

Now that naddy has pointed out the (obviously not to me) obvious,
please see the graphics wiki[1] which points out the Radeon HD 5000 is
known to not work.


[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
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