Re: NetBSD-current / modular X on iMac (27-inch, mid 2011): AMD Radeon 6970M Video Card

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Benjamin Lorenz wrote:
>was successfully setting up NetBSD-current on my iMac. Only problem with 
>modular X / xf86-video-ati-7.3.0nb1 is the resolution that only goes up to 
>1920x1440 where it should be 2560x1440. 
>
>Reading from the Linux forums this can only be achieved by using the closed 
>source driver directly from AMD. I don?t want to believe this. Anyone who got 
>the native resolution working with the free driver that is available from 
>pkgsrc for NetBSD?

I don't know whether you will be able to get 2560x1440 on your system
but you probably want to use the x11/xf86-video-ati6 package instead
of the x11/xf86-video-ati one.

Robert Swindells