Xorg ATI video card

[shalimar]

Hello, I am having some problems with Xorg. I thought that it was Gnome but I tried with Enlightenment and also having the same problem. The graphics are going too slow and some applications does not open like Firefox. I have an ATI Radeon 5000 video card.

 

[SirDice]

I'm afraid you may have an unsupported card.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#AMD_.2F_Radeon_Graphics

 

[T-Daemon]

I'm afraid you may have an unsupported card.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#AMD_.2F_Radeon_Graphics

This site (https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG) states a working Radeaon HD 5000 with X.Org version 1.12 . But only X.org, no virtual terminal support (note the VT switching (1) comment).

 

[SirDice]

That's an old page (last updated in December 2014). The page I linked to was updated last August so it should be fairly up to date.

 

[shalimar]

I'm afraid you may have an unsupported card.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#AMD_.2F_Radeon_Graphics

Thank you, my other option is an Nvidia 9800GT but I do not see on the list either, so nothing else than wait for a future update maybe.

 

[ASX]

The nvidia will work either with nvidia-driver (latest) or with nvidia-driver-340.

 

[SirDice]

Yep, the NVidia card should be fully working. It does require the "legacy" driver though, x11/nvidia-driver-340.

 

[shalimar]

Yep, the NVidia card should be fully working. It does require the "legacy" driver though, x11/nvidia-driver-340.

Ok thanks, will try with that one so.