HD4200M works

Mathias Picker Mathias.Picker at virtual-earth.de
Mon Feb 17 19:40:48 UTC 2014


Just a success report for the wiki. 

I have an Acer 5553g with Mobile Phenom and ATI 4200/5000M graphics.
The 5000 didn't work when I tried it last (around RC1), if I remember
correctly it couldn't get at the monitor. It would be way too hot
anyway...

The HD4200M works fine.

This is the pciconf output:
vgapci0 at pci0:1:5:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x03621025 chip=0x97121002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI'
    device     = 'RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series]'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA
vgapci1 at pci0:2:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x03621025 chip=0x68c11002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI'
    device     = 'Madison [Radeon HD 5000M Series]'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA

marcopolo% uname -a
FreeBSD marcopolo 10.0-STABLE FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE #14 r261827: Thu Feb
13 13:13:01 CET 2014     mathiasp at marcopolo:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
amd64



I can switch the 5000M off with acpi_call. Still, the laptop runs about
5° hotter then with 9.2.

Oh, two small problems:
- I cannot use a screensaver with power save, it will not come alive
again...
- I can only switch off the HD5000 after X started. If I do it before, X
just does not start :(


One question: is there a way to stop the HD5000 drm code to load?




Thanks you all for the hard work, 

Mathias




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