Solved Install FreeBSD in an old iMac 2011

I took my grandfather's old computer which is an old iMac 2011, RAM 4GB, HD 512GB, AMD Whistler Radeon HD 6730M/6770M. This is really small brief from all my tries to make this working which it was pretty straight forward and a way to say thank you to this community which I've been learning a lot from reading all these posts. I didn't find anything related with iMac so here I left my 2 cents if someone come across with same hardware and tell them that it works like a charm.
1) Install Freebsd-12-CURRENT from USB Stick

2) Install video drivers Radeon in this particular case.

portmaster graphics/drm-kmod

in etc/rc.conf
change: kdl_list="/boot/modules/radeonkms.ko"

3) Then I Installed Xorg, dwm, firefox and iridium

portmaster x11/xorg
In usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf

Remove everything if this is doing from scratch:

Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "Radeon"
    MatchDriver "radeon"
    Driver "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

To me the hardest part was the video drivers for the device.
 
I must say thank you for posting your radeon.conf
A while back I bought a HP 8470P IvyCreek laptop with hybrid graphics.(Intel and ATI)
No matter what I tried I could not get the ati driver to load. So I used VESA driver. Not bad but not accelerated.
I tried again tonight with your settings and have a working ATI driver with Xfce4.
Great job.
 
Phishfry I just saw your message for first time. Hope you made it work. I have same configuration. I think, retrospective xorg.conf wasn't needed. Just the new radeon drivers.
 
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