X won't start with radeon (AMD R9 270X)

[Michael Gmelin]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:33:36 -0600
"Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 07:28:02PM +0100 I heard the voice of
> jurgenxiv at t-online.de, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > I'm having a problem getting X11 to work with my graphics card. 
> 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Tested_hardware_matrix
> 
> The 7000 series is the latest with any meaningful support.  The R9 is
> two generations newer than that.
> 
> 

Even though this won't give you radeon support you might want to try
this and see if it helps your VESA performance:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/xorg-vesa-driver-massive-speedup-using-mtrr-write-combine.46723/

-- 
Michael Gmelin