Radeon troubles

[Christian Weisgerber]

On 2014-11-29, "John F. Carr" <jfc at mit.edu> wrote:

> A Radeon HD 5450 (now installed) and an older Radeon behave the same.
> Both are PCIe cards.  The kernel says "[drm] RADEON_IS_PCIE" if I start X.

The Radeon HD 5450 works.  The machine I'm typing this on has one.

> There are two problems:
>
> 1. When X exits the screen never switches back to console mode.

That sounds like you might still be using syscons(4) instead of
vt(4).  Booting with kern.vty=vt in loader.conf(5) will get you
vt(4).

> 2. On a PA272W 2560x1440 monitor the image is horizontally compressed

(I have no experience with that.)

> Any advice?  Configuration and logs follow.

All of which looks, as far as relevant, a lot like mine.

You don't have a 5450, though.
-(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series" (ChipID = 0x68e1)
+(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 5450" (ChipID = 0x68f9)

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de