[Bug 247441] graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod and or graphics/drm-fbsd11.2-kmod crashing 11.2 to 11.4 with a Radeon HD 5770 card

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--- Comment #20 from Scott Bennett <bennett at sdf.org> ---
     Another month and a half has ticked by with no response and no action.  
Meanwhile I have further upgraded my system to
FreeBSD hellas 11.4-STABLE FreeBSD 11.4-STABLE #27 r364474: Sat Aug 22 22:59:43
CDT 2020     bennett at hellas:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/hellas  amd64
and expect to update again in the next few days.
     I recently borrowed a laptop and installed NomadBSD onto an external USB
hard drive.  It seems to work well and doesn't crash, although something
initially dims the screen until the screen is unreadable except in a pitch
black
room.  To counter that, I added a "/usr/local/bin/xset -dpms standby" line to
.xinitrc, so that it puts the screen into standby, at which point I can hit any
key or move the trackball, which turns the screen back on at normal brightness.
It does require logging in and then entering startx in the blind, but at least
it is then usable.
      But, to get back to the topic of this ticket, I would just like to say
that it would be nice to have a usable, safe graphics stack to use with FreeBSD
on this tower machine.  It would also be nice not to continue to be ignored
w.r.t. this PR.

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