Fwd: Problem when building radeon X video driver on Freebsd-current

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2014, Vinicius Abrahao wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
>       On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
>       > On Sat, 21 Jun 2014, René Ladan wrote:
>       >
>       >  Hi,
>       >>
>       >> Forwarding this from a user of radeonhd
>       >>
>       >> René
> 
> 
> Thank you, René,
> After rebuilding xf86-video-ati , I changed the xorg.conf to use "Driver ati".

There is no harm in using "radeon", it's part of that port.

> I am using Radeon HD 6500D, indeed I did not know for sure what driver to use.
> After all, even using ati driver I am having trouble with SDL at -current (r267702),
> $ sdl-config --version
> 1.2.15
> 
> This is the error:
> SDL_Init( SDL_INIT_VIDEO ) FAILED (No available video device)
> SDL_Init( SDL_INIT_VIDEO ) FAILED (No available video device)
> 
> All SDL applications that I try give me the same error, but glxgears and glxinfo works.

Which SDL applications?  games/openarena runs here, and uses SDL, but 
maybe not in the same way.