would radeon card work if recompiling the kernel?

[vaisarger]

Support for ATI radeon cards there isn't anymore.
However, it's a pity reading in Xorg messages that radeon driver does support all those ATI card, but kernel compiled in "make.conf" with "NEW-XORG=YES" and "KMS=YES" uses radeonkms instead, that complains about a drmn.ko that doesn't exist in system, and so X fails back to VESA (if you edit conf file).
My question is: is it possible to make kernel use old graphic system, making it use old (and working) radeon.ko?

[ericbsd]

The new KMS for ATI, should work might not work properly under GhostBSD I have no ATI hardware to test it and make it work properly.
Can you start drmn?

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sudo kldload drmn

[vaisarger]

drmn.ko simply there isn't. There are "drm" and "drm2" instead, but loading latter and then loading radeonkms causes system to crash.

[ericbsd]

I will need to by myself ATI card to fix that old issue.

[sochnedo]

ko that doesn't exist in system, and so X fails back to VESA (if you edit conf file). My question is: is it possible to make kernel use old graphic system, making it use old (and working) radeon.ko?..??