From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 20 20:13:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5755E1065679 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:13:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomdean@speakeasy.org) Received: from asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net [207.145.128.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8CFD8FC1B for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.48]) by asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C0EA70976 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:49:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 29410 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2012 19:49:12 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 5114, pid: 577, t: 1.2254s scanners: clamav: 0.88.2/m:52/d:10739 spam: 3.0.4 Received: from unknown (HELO P9X79.tddhome) (tomdean@[24.113.107.31]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Apr 2012 19:49:11 -0000 Message-ID: <4F91BDC5.6080006@speakeasy.org> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:49:25 -0700 From: "Thomas D. Dean" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120310 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail4.sea5 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.9 required=8.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO, RATWARE_GECKO_BUILD autolearn=disabled version=3.0.4 Subject: Re: AMD A8-3870K with FreeBSD 9.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:13:16 -0000 On 04/20/12 09:10, Nikos zlulz wrote: > The reason im writing here now is to ask (if anyone knows) if FreeBSD 9.0 > works (has drivers) with the Radeon HD 6550D (video card), AMD A8 has on it. > > Can i use the CPU for GPU too or i have to buy an other Graphics card ? > > Thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > The Radeon HD 6870 requires KMS which is not in FreeBSD 9.0. I believe the same is true for the 6550. This card can be used with the vesa driver by using Driver "vesa" in xorg.conf. Tom Dean