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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2014 07:27:22 -0500
From:      Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Support for AMD A4-6300 Richland  w/ Radeon HD 8370D
Message-ID:  <54A29A2A.50001@gmx.us>
In-Reply-To: <54A22259.8070602@freenet.de>
References:  <239D4B59-8ED2-4049-827F-C2E84172D7F4@dpdtech.com> <54A1F5F2.2000206@gmx.us> <54A22259.8070602@freenet.de>

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On 12/29/14 22:56, Gerd Hafenbrack wrote:
> On 2014-12-30 01:46, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
>> On 12/29/14 19:12, David P. Discher wrote:
>>> ... AMD A4-6300 Richland Dual-Core 3.7GHz Socket FM2 65W Desktop
>>> Processor AMD Radeon HD 8370D
>>> ...
>>> [   183.426] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ARUBA" (ChipID = 0x9998)
>>> ...
>> Have you seen https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics ?
>
> You mean because of the row
> | AMD | Radeon HD 8000 | Sea Islands | Not supported |
> in "Tested hardware matrix"?
>
> This is very misleading!
> With marketing name "HD 8000" there are 4 generations from "Evergreen"
> to "Sea Islands". Only "Sea Islands" is not supported.
> "Aruba" is TeraScale 3/VLIW4 like "CAYMAN" which is "Northern Islands"
> generation and should work.
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Maybe that could be broken out further in the wiki?

My main reason for mentioning it was the OP had mentioned loading the 
driver and modules.  There is a very Radeon-specific procedure in the 
wiki that may have been helpful.



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