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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:24:43 -0600
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Default configuration for xorg-drivers (WTF?)
Message-ID:  <1262093083.2314.18.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <82913.1262078703@tristatelogic.com>
References:  <82913.1262078703@tristatelogic.com>

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On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 01:25 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> Is there something broken about the current openchrome driver?
> 
> Don't an awful lot of people (like me) need SOME sort of a driver for
> VIA-based graphics?  If so, then why the bleep doesn't the default
> config for xorg-drivers provide any such?

openchrome was branched from the via driver some time ago and is
actually maintained.  The via driver is old and crufty and generally
should not be used.

I finally have hardware of the appropriate vintage to work on the via
drm code, so hopefully we will have drm support soon as well.

robert.

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Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD




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