AMD GPU kernel support

Jean-Sébastien Pédron jean-sebastien.pedron at dumbbell.fr
Thu Sep 19 21:00:46 UTC 2013


On 19.09.2013 22:46, Juris Kaminskis wrote:
> Hello,

Hi!

> Did as per https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU to test ati radeon driver but
> unfortunately my X just freezes without anything happening, and I can only
> kill it via SSH remotely.

You still have xf86-video-ati 6.14.6 installed. This one is compiled
without KMS support. You must install a newer port. The wiki page you
mention speaks about the xorg-dev repository to get it. But now, it's
simpler to use the patch and instructions found in the following announce:
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2013-September/013599.html

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron

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