Radeon 5770, graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod, and graphics/drm-fbsd11.2-kmod

[Scott Bennett]

abi via freebsd-x11 <freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 13.04.2020 13:31, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> > On 2020-04-12 12:42, Scott Bennett wrote:
> >> ????? Is an MSI-built card with a Radeon 5770 supposed to be 
> >> supported by
> >> graphica/gpu-firmware-kmod and graphics/drm-fbsd11.2-kmod?
> >>
> >
> > I believe so, but I don't have the hardware to test.
> > drm-fbsd11.2-kmod is fairly old though, and only works on 11.? Any 
> > reason you haven't updated to FreeBSD 12?
> > Regards
> It works on 12. Actually, this is the last stable radeonkms driver, 4.16 
> panics from time to time.

     Thank you for that information.  If I can ever get 12.1 to build on
11.3, I can upgrade.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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