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Date:      Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:26:13 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com>
To:        tomdean@speakeasy.org
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Radeon 6870 Not Supported
Message-ID:  <20111207102613.740338c1@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <1323241057.14453.39.camel@asus>
References:  <1323241057.14453.39.camel@asus>

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On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:57:37 -0800
"Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@speakeasy.org> wrote:

> I looked at 'man radeon' before purchasing a video card.
> 
> That man page says the chip is supported.
> 
> X will not start with the message "Radeon 6870 requires KMS"
> 
> Ooops!
> 

The manpage does reference the wiki, which states that radeon uses
KMS.

An alternative might be radeonhd.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn



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