From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 21 12:43:39 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FF46E5E for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:43:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (mail.lysator.liu.se [IPv6:2001:6b0:17:f0a0::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E924B1880 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:43:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B3340025 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:43:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9D15840021; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:43:36 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on bernadotte.lysator.liu.se X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 Received: from mx.daemonic.se (mx.daemonic.se [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4F96440020; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:43:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailscanner.daemonic.se (mailscanner.daemonic.se [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::6]) by mx.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3fVsm80S53z8gh2; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:43:36 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daemonic.se Received: from mx.daemonic.se ([10.1.0.3]) (using TLS with cipher CAMELLIA256-SHA) by mailscanner.daemonic.se (mailscanner.daemonic.se [10.1.0.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTPS id gNJ1fGp8J5kW; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:43:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.daemonic.se (mail.daemonic.se [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::4]) by mx.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3fVsm54YbQz8gh4; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:43:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from tifa.daemonic.se (tifa.daemonic.se [10.32.0.6]) by mail.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3fVsm545nGz9D6J; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:43:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from tifa.daemonic.se (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by tifa.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB83122831; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:43:17 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <530749E5.8090905@daemonic.se> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:43:17 +0100 From: Niclas Zeising User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: ATI graphics card on FreeBSD10: Xorg -configure fails (No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol) References: <614128.37875.bm@smtp116.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <5307308E.20509@daemonic.se> <139525.53330.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <139525.53330.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:43:39 -0000 On 02/21/14 13:15, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> On 02/21/14 07:57, Thomas Mueller wrote: > >>> Regarding WITH_GALLIUM, how would you design such parameters for an installation that could run on a wide variety of computers? > >> The WITH_KMS option was removed some time ago, KMS is now the default >> with building WITH_NEW_XORG. With regards to gallium, that had to be >> made an option, since it brings in heavy dependencies in the form of >> llvm, which might not be desirable if compiling on slower computers. > >> There are more instructions and information on >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Ports > >> Regards! > -- >> Niclas > > Probability that I would actually use gallium from my USB-stick installation is really low, so I do best to avoid the unnecessary freight. > > To run on a wide variety of computers, there is the sissy way, namely vesa, to avoid the error-prone attempt to simultaneously optimize for may different systems. Gallium is needed to get hardware acceleration if you are using ATI hardware with KMS. Regards! -- Niclas