Getting going with a new Dell 7810

Adam McDougall mcdouga9 at egr.msu.edu
Wed Jun 17 15:52:08 UTC 2015


On 06/16/2015 12:55, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> I've just received a new Dell Precision 7810. I've installed FreeBSD
> 10.1 (UEFI boot), checked out sources, built world & kernel and am now
> running r284449. So far, so good.
> 
> The problem is Xorg. I'm running the latest Xorg in ports; I just did a
> 'make install clean' in /usr/ports/x11/xorg with no errors.
> 
> The display card is a FirePro W4100. lspci shows:
> 
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
> [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde GL [FirePro W4100]
> 

If it is brand new, it is probably not supported and probably won't be
for a while.  Please see https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics for a list of
devices which does include your Radeon HD 4670.


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