What driver (and how) to use for Radeon HD 6950 these days

[Paul Schiro]

running custom kernel, but I didn't trim out anything it should care about

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Erich Dollansky
<erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:07:34 -0700
> Paul Schiro <tribblon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 13:52 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>> > > Hi all... been an avid FreeBSD user since about 2.1.5... but its
>> > > been
>> >
>> > as you started this, BSD since 1979. But only for a few hours.
>>
>> I was -1 year old, so...
>
> so, you are a newcomer?
>>
>> > > To cut to the chase, I have a Radeon HD 6950 [ATI RV970].. after
>> > > much
>> >
>> > Ask a search engine for WITH_NEW_XORG and WITH_GALLUIM in the
>> > make.conf
>>
>> I've got the WITH_NEW_XORG and WITH_GALLIUM make.conf options in there
>> already, and reinstalled all the xorg packages... but still had
>
> Oh, you need to build from ports.
>
>> trouble getting drm2 to work.... though I just used "pkg install"...
>> I'm thinking I have to go through the pain of building all of it in
>> ports... the more I think on it, the more that sounds right, since
>> make.conf options probably aren't going to do anything for prebuilt
>> binaries... d'oh!
>
> Yes.
>
>>
>> > You also should check if this card is even supported. I use Intel at
>> > the moment and do not know much more.
>>
>> Seems like it might be:
>>
>> $ grep 6950 /usr/src/sys/dev/drm2/drm_pciids.h
>>       {0x1002, 0x6719, CHIP_CAYMAN|RADEON_NEW_MEMMAP, "Cayman PRO
>> [Radeon HD 6950]"}, \
>>
>> Other than that, no idea how to tell for sure at present...
>>
>> Guess I'll try rebuilding all of xorg with those make.conf options for
>> now.
>
> Yes, the kernel should have the rest even being a GENERIC. The ports
> should load automatically the modules needed.
>
> Erich



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Paul Schiro
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