Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:30:54 -0700 From: Paul Schiro <tribblon@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What driver (and how) to use for Radeon HD 6950 these days Message-ID: <CALy9RrdLqYndwABmv1SdDCj%2BKdWf-PeuvXHfA8iVVpOBkh1-Ng@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1391062264.1372.10.camel@ghostwheel.tribble.net> References: <CALy9RreuNB6PDZtTp3KYr9FVJARDoK%2B7xVpL3xwXj-aKB3RefA@mail.gmail.com> <20140130135214.397bb406@X220.alogt.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401292254250.71706@wonkity.com> <1391062264.1372.10.camel@ghostwheel.tribble.net>
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JFYI... I following the link given here: To have a working console on HEAD with the radeon and intel KMS drivers please read the vt(9) page. And tried to add vt and vt_vga devices to my kernel config, but when I do, I get: "config: Error: device "vt" is unknown" "config: Error: device "vt_vga" is unknown" "config: 2 errors" Not sure what the deal is there, unless that didn't make it into 10-STABLE, and its still just in -HEAD On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Paul Schiro <tribblon@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you very much, Warren. Did not come across those wiki links > previously, which would have been infinitely more helpful than googling > or the cursory search of the maillist archive I did... > > I'll take a look at the wiki entries, do the needful, and report back > with whatever I find on my system. > > On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 23:02 -0700, Warren Block wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Erich Dollansky wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:33:03 -0700 >> > Paul Schiro <tribblon@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi all... been an avid FreeBSD user since about 2.1.5... but its been >> > >> > as you started this, BSD since 1979. But only for a few hours. >> > >> >> To cut to the chase, I have a Radeon HD 6950 [ATI RV970].. after much >> > >> > Ask a search engine for WITH_NEW_XORG and WITH_GALLUIM in the make.conf >> >> Supported cards and the procedure to install KMS drivers for both Radeon >> and Intel graphics are shown on the wiki: >> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Tested_hardware_matrix >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Installing_KMS_Ports >> >> > You also should check if this card is even supported. I use Intel at >> > the moment and do not know much more. >> >> The 6970 is shown as working. That should be a dual-card version of the >> 6950, but nothing beats actual testing. Paul, it will probably work, >> but either way, please follow up so we can update the wiki. > > -- Regards, Paul Schiro <tribblon@gmail.com> 720.280.7023
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