Radeon 6870 Not Supported

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:57:37 -0800
"Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean at speakeasy.org> wrote:

> I looked at 'man radeon' before purchasing a video card.
> 
> That man page says the chip is supported.
> 
> X will not start with the message "Radeon 6870 requires KMS"
> 
> Ooops!
> 

The manpage does reference the wiki, which states that radeon uses
KMS.

An alternative might be radeonhd.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn