Getting going with a new Dell 7810

[Richard Kuhns]

On 06/17/15 11:43, Adam McDougall wrote:
> 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.

That's what I was afraid of. I was hoping that the message that it was
using syscons when my machine was using vt had something to do with it,
but based on a couple of other messages that isn't the case.

Thanks!

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