video-ati-legacy

[Niclas Zeising]

On 10/19/18 2:02 PM, starikarp at yandex.com wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics with 512 MB of dedicated GDDR3
> memory (iMac 11,1) and have a problem with the new ati drivers.
> Now we have ati-legacy in the port.
> How are the settings now.
> I I have kld_lise="radeonkms" in /etc/.
> Do I need to instal drm-kmod-legacy and the link would be
> in /boot/modules, please?
> 

xf86-video-ati-legacy is just a different version of xf86-video-ati, 
since the update of xf86-video-ati caused regressions in some cases.
This has nothing to do with drm-kmod-legacy.  drm-kmod-legacy is a port 
of the same drivers that are in base, for use on architectures that does 
not support lkpi properly and on FreeBSD 12 or later.  When installing 
the port, this is installed in /boot/modules rather than /boot/kernel, 
and you need to specify the fully qualified path to kldload and in kld_list.

If you are running FreeBSD on amd64, I recommend you instead use 
drm-kmod if possible, then xf86-video-ati should work for you.
Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising