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: > > > Unfortunately it is very hard to fix it. There has been several changes > > in how xorg-server interacts with the xf86 drivers, and the version > > xf86-video-ati-legacy was based on was very old and not compatible with > > xserver 1.20. > > If anyone can make xf86-video-ati-legacy work with xserver 1.20 we can > > get the patches in, but I don't have the time to work on > > xf86-video-ati-legacy myself. > > 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 > > > At a bare minimum, documentation should be updated to report what really > 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 > found another Radeon card laying around and tried that: it's better but > still not there. Both are reported as "working" on the wiki. > > Now, if I decided to go ahead and buy a new card, I wouldn't know what > to buy: I could check the wiki, get a card which is listed there and > discover I just wasted my money? > > bye > av. > > P.S. > BTW, I also have a laptop with CPU integrated Intel graphics: again, > it's listed as just working, but I had to step through hops to avoid > 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 > not sure what to expect. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>help
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