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.
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3) Then I Installed Xorg, dwm, firefox and iridium
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Remove everything if this is doing from scratch:
To me the hardest part was the video drivers for the device.
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.