ATI video problem - slow desktop - 100% cpu load [semi-solved]

[Mark Saad]

Vincent
  I used the scfb driver in openbsd land for a work project . Currently I am using 11-STABLE with the Radeon driver but at one point I had a different card under 11.0 that didn’t work unless I used the scfb driver . 

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Mark Saad | nonesuch at longcount.org

> On Jun 21, 2018, at 11:41 PM, Carl Johnson <carlj at peak.org> wrote:
> 
> Vincent Stemen <vince.bsd at hightek.org> writes:
> 
>> You must load radeonkms.ko after the system is fully booted.
>> 
>>    # kldload radeonkms
>> 
>> That automatically loads the other 3 modules and initializes the console where
>> the console text goes into higher resolution mode.  Then X and the desktop
>> environments work and seem to be fully functional, including transparency, etc.
>> 
>> So I can either put it in /etc/rc.local, to be run at boot time, or put it in
>> an X startup script wrapper.  Note that it must be run prior to startx because
>> it must be loaded before launching the X server.  So it cannot be put in
>> ~/.xinitrc.
> 
> Have you tried loading it with kld_list in /etc/rc.conf?  Those get
> loaded during boot, but it might be late enough to work.  That would be
> automated, so it might be a little more convenient.
> -- 
> Carl Johnson        carlj at peak.org
> 
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