On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 21:13, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Rob Farmer wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:32, LOL <elvis4...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys. >>> On every release of freebsd that i tried (-CURRENT, -STABLE, -RELEASE) >>> everything goes fine until I install xorg, gdm and gnome by packages >>> or not it does not make any difference. When I boot with >>> gnome_enable="YES" , and gdm start, when I try to change tty, on every >>> tty, its a black screen and my monitor tell me, power saving mode >>> enable until I switch back to gdm. I installed the xf86-video-ati >>> driver and I have an ati radeon HD 5770. >> >> The correct driver for recent ATI cards is xf86-video-radeonhd. And >> try the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU knob as David suggests. > > Actually, the radeon driver from xf86-video-ati is more solid and likely to > work reliably, even with newer cards. Features for 5000-series cards are > sparse, though. It appears that work on radeonhd has dropped off. >
Sorry - I seem to have gotten confused between "radeon" (which comes from the ati package) and "radeonhd" which is separate - and just froze my system as I was figuring this out :). -- Rob Farmer _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
