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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 2020 21:15:04 +0200
From:      Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
Cc:        Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>, x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xf86-video-ati-legacy port status
Message-ID:  <20200601211504.72eab297bca88aacb165b21c@bidouilliste.com>
In-Reply-To: <6675586c-dae2-39c6-2aba-bd66511d2d72@netfence.it>
References:  <20200527172918.GA874@doom.homeunix.org> <ab0ff124-14ca-83a8-8643-65a0a819cf42@freebsd.org> <6675586c-dae2-39c6-2aba-bd66511d2d72@netfence.it>

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On Sat, 30 May 2020 08:56:25 +0200
Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote:

> On 2020-05-29 10:42, Niclas Zeising wrote:
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> > Unfortunately it is very hard to fix it.=A0 There has been several chan=
ges=20
> > in how xorg-server interacts with the xf86 drivers, and the version=20
> > xf86-video-ati-legacy was based on was very old and not compatible with=
=20
> > xserver 1.20.
> > If anyone can make xf86-video-ati-legacy work with xserver 1.20 we can=
=20
> > get the patches in, but I don't have the time to work on=20
> > xf86-video-ati-legacy myself.
>=20
> Agreed, but it's really the non-legacy version that should be fixed.

 Agreed,
 Please post full dmesg, pciconf -vl, pkg info and Xorg.log somewhere

>=20
>=20
> At a bare minimum, documentation should be updated to report what really=
=20
> works (not what should work but doesn't).

 I'm working on an image that will test all that.

> As I said my integrated Radeon GPU does not work at all with new Xorg; I=
=20
> found another Radeon card laying around and tried that: it's better but=20
> still not there. Both are reported as "working" on the wiki.
>=20
> Now, if I decided to go ahead and buy a new card, I wouldn't know what=20
> to buy: I could check the wiki, get a card which is listed there and=20
> discover I just wasted my money?
>=20
>   bye
> 	av.
>=20
> P.S.
> BTW, I also have a laptop with CPU integrated Intel graphics: again,=20
> it's listed as just working, but I had to step through hops to avoid=20
> hangs and I still often get screen corruption.

 Same as above, without info on what hardware you have it's hard to
help.
 I'm happily running FreeBSD 13-CURRENT on Broadwell, Skylake and
WhiskeyLake without any problems.

> So even if I decided to change the whole box and get an Intel CPU, I'm=20
> not sure what to expect.
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Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>



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