What driver (and how) to use for Radeon HD 6950 these days

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:07:34 -0700
Paul Schiro <tribblon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 13:52 +0800, Erich Dollansky 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.
> 
> I was -1 year old, so...

so, you are a newcomer?
> 
> > > 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
> 
> I've got the WITH_NEW_XORG and WITH_GALLIUM make.conf options in there
> already, and reinstalled all the xorg packages... but still had

Oh, you need to build from ports.

> trouble getting drm2 to work.... though I just used "pkg install"...
> I'm thinking I have to go through the pain of building all of it in
> ports... the more I think on it, the more that sounds right, since
> make.conf options probably aren't going to do anything for prebuilt
> binaries... d'oh!

Yes.

> 
> > You also should check if this card is even supported. I use Intel at
> > the moment and do not know much more.
> 
> Seems like it might be:
> 
> $ grep 6950 /usr/src/sys/dev/drm2/drm_pciids.h
> 	{0x1002, 0x6719, CHIP_CAYMAN|RADEON_NEW_MEMMAP, "Cayman PRO
> [Radeon HD 6950]"}, \
> 
> Other than that, no idea how to tell for sure at present...
> 
> Guess I'll try rebuilding all of xorg with those make.conf options for
> now.

Yes, the kernel should have the rest even being a GENERIC. The ports
should load automatically the modules needed.

Erich