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Date:      Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:29:25 +0100
From:      Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>
To:        Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using drm-next in 11.2
Message-ID:  <db1484c7-6306-ebec-1b49-9d0962ca9d39@ingresso.co.uk>
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> I believe your best bet is to let Xorg probe your devices automatically 
> - i.e. don't have an xorg.conf in place when starting X.

Yes, I dont have an xorg to conf - I was a bit unclear, I meant which 
drivers should I instal from the xorg-drivers package as I dont 
generally install all of them.

> On my end this will result in the "modesetting" driver being used, which 
> is the suggested driver to use for intel and i believe amdgpu systems. 
> it provides full acceleration, and is under active development 
> upstream.  it should also be part of the xorg-server pkg, so you don't 
> need to install any additional video drivers to use the modesetting driver.

Thats actually relly helpdful, thanks! - I dont see a modesetting driver 
in /usr/ports/x11-drivers though, Where did you get this driver from ?

-pete.



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