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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:08:33PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Jin Guojun, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> It looks like that Radeon 6400-6600 Series are not supported in
> Xorg, or not in this FreeBSD version.

TTBOMK, all the Radeons newer than 4xxx (i.e., 5xxx and above) are
meaningfully supported only via KMS, and thus not at all on FreeBSD.
So using a 6xxx probably means you choose between vesa and...  vesa.


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