Fwd: Experience Report: Radeon HD 6250 IGP vs. FreeBSD 10.0-BETA1

[Gabor Pali]

Hi folks,

Recently I decided to take a try with the Radeon KMS support so I
updated one of my FreeBSD-running netbooks (Asus Eee PC 1015B) to
10.0-BETA1 and built all the X.Org ports with WITH_NEW_XORG (and
WITH_GALLIUM) enabled.

Executive summary: it works, thank you, guys, great stuff!  Keep up
this excellent work :-)  Although I have not tried all the possible
applications, I mostly run Wine (and played "Papers, Please"),
glxgears, played videos using mplayer but without VDPAU, and watched
YouTube and other videos from the web via the Chromium + (Linux) Flash
combo -- so feel free to hint me what else to test.

In details: see the logs [1].  Note that the card did not work at
first try as the driver did not seem to detect the hardware
automatically (as it is an IGP).  I contacted Jean-Sébastien on IRC
and he told me to add the "hw.pci.default_vgapci_unit=0" line to
loader.conf(5).  I also had to preload the drm2 kernel module
manually, as the the radeonkms driver does not seem to pull it in
automatically.

[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/paste/radeonkms/