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Re:FreeBSD 11.1 released by napsterbr on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:49AM (#14854325)
Consider yourself lucky you don't have to deal with radeon drivers! This week alone, I had two different kernel panics, one on my notebook and another on my desktop, both of which use radeon (different gpu models), and in both cases radeon was the culprit.

For the record, I think we all agree that this kind of panic is not FreeBSD's fault. Linux support for this kind of driver is more stable and advanced, but, even though I use FreeBSD both for production and personal use, its "expected" case is production server.

Re:FreeBSD 11.1 released by floatboth on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:10AM (#14854918)
Have you tried drm-next? https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics

It's an update of the graphics stack to match modern Linux. Apparently amdgpu leaks memory, but radeonkms might work fine.

Re:FreeBSD 11.1 released by lmm on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:05AM (#14856248)
AMD/ATI graphics drivers have always been terrible. Never seen a problem with NVidia or Intel.
Re:FreeBSD 11.1 released by petre on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:57AM (#14854350)
Isn't the radeon driver proprietary?