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Subject: Re: Any chance for ATI Radeon 8470 HD graphics ?
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On 08/12/16 08:18, Manish Jain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a system with onboard ATI Radeon 8470 HD graphics adapter. I am currently having to use the vesa driver because radeon does not work correctly with the chipset. (On Linux, it does, but not on FreeBSD).
>
> Is there any chance we could see support for my chipset in an upcoming release ?
>
> In case it is needed, my system is FreeBSD 10.3 amd64 with AMD A6-6400K (Richland) processor paired with Asus A68HM (FM2 socket) motherboard.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Manish Jain
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Preach it *LOUD*, brother !!!! There are a whole family of AMD APU's 
(Jaguar, Richland, Kabini, Kaveri etc.) which are apparently rather 
widely used in laptops & some tablets & other low power machines, & 
(*VERY*) sadly unsupported in FreeBSD :-( ....

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