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

[Paul Schiro]

JFYI... I following the link given here:

To have a working console on HEAD with the radeon and intel KMS
drivers please read the vt(9) page.

And tried to add vt and vt_vga devices to my kernel config, but when I
do, I get:

"config: Error: device "vt" is unknown"
"config: Error: device "vt_vga" is unknown"
"config: 2 errors"

Not sure what the deal is there, unless that didn't make it into
10-STABLE, and its still just in -HEAD

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Paul Schiro <tribblon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you very much, Warren.  Did not come across those wiki links
> previously, which would have been infinitely more helpful than googling
> or the cursory search of the maillist archive I did...
>
> I'll take a look at the wiki entries, do the needful, and report back
> with whatever I find on my system.
>
> On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 23:02 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:33:03 -0700
>> > Paul Schiro <tribblon at gmail.com> 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.
>> >
>> >> 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
>>
>> Supported cards and the procedure to install KMS drivers for both Radeon
>> and Intel graphics are shown on the wiki:
>>
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Tested_hardware_matrix
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Installing_KMS_Ports
>>
>> > You also should check if this card is even supported. I use Intel at
>> > the moment and do not know much more.
>>
>> The 6970 is shown as working.  That should be a dual-card version of the
>> 6950, but nothing beats actual testing.  Paul, it will probably work,
>> but either way, please follow up so we can update the wiki.
>
>



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Regards,
Paul Schiro
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