Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:07:49 +0000 From: Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Radeon 5770, graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod, and graphics/drm-fbsd11.2-kmod Message-ID: <f5959969-badc-1c66-0bc4-b06e09c6dfae@gjunka.com> In-Reply-To: <202004131231.03DCVxkN022232@sdf.org> References: <202004131231.03DCVxkN022232@sdf.org>
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On 13/04/2020 12:31, Scott Bennett wrote: >> >> I believe so, but I don't have the hardware to test. >> drm-fbsd11.2-kmod is fairly old though, and only works on 11. Any >> reason you haven't updated to FreeBSD 12? > Yes. To date, every attempt to build 12.1-STABLE on my 11.3-STABLE > system has failed in seconds. I have no idea how I can upgrade to 12.1-STABLE > until I can build it. I do emphatically *not* intend to install from scratch > again, especially not given the thoroughly braindead ZFS installation option in > the FreeBSD installer. I bit the bullet *once* just to get to root-on-ZFS under > 11.1, and it required a *lot* of work to get it configured the way I wanted it > because of the idiot installer. Do you mean 12-STABLE or 12.1-RELEASE? What's exactly failing? I compiled 12-STABLE successfully last week, albeit admittedly not on 11. > Thus, for the fifth time since I began using FreeBSD at the beginning of 2005 > (5.2.1-RELEASE), I do not have safely usable graphics on my system. That leaves > me with only lynx(1) as a web browser and many other applications I can't run. > mplayer, for example, is only good for audio files, not video files. Even though > NetBSD just introduced ZFS in 9.0, mprime, which I run, is not available for any > other BSD besides FreeBSD. Also, it's not clear to me that pools upgraded to the > features introduced in FreeBSD 11.2 can be used with whatever level of ZFS is > currently imported into NetBSD. So NetBSD isn't an option for me. AFAIK, none of > the other BSDs have ever implemented superpages either. So, for the nonce, I am > stuck with FreeBSD. I share your pain. I can't use any of my desktop with FreeBSD 12-X apart from one, which is running an NVidia based graphics. But I just learned recently that 13 CURRENT works on the one that has AMD Vega 64 so maybe I will convince myself to take more risk and switch, at least a desktop (not any of my servers), to 13 CURRENT? -- GrzegorzJ
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