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Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>,
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On 05/19/18 05:56, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> Yes, with VESA, albeit aspect ratios are off.
> I'm using drm2 with an AMD (née ATI) Radeon 4850 (RV770), AGP.  This is on an amd64 somewhat old -current system.  Is this supported by the drm-next-kmod port?

I've used drm2 in the past, but noticed the anti-flicker support 
features are not as good as in the drm-next-kmod. Also video support is 
much better, external displays and so on, not only getting video on the 
built-in display but also various kinds of VGA, HDMI and displayports.

--HPS