Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:41:09 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>, x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Users of x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-legacy Message-ID: <1c29f581-5048-8c1f-195a-6b22f8487163@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <dc23b150-39c1-f875-2ee1-d38c919f498d@freebsd.org> References: <ef0ba8bc-e029-1918-5747-941fd9a3f2ae@freebsd.org> <16c93a1a-cc60-b9a5-da48-889f48aa6005@netfence.it> <d1133d52-0edd-aeae-afc0-32c4339c99b0@netfence.it> <c36ed3ba-1aad-ad70-1f90-1fa1f9370b59@netfence.it> <9352b468-9f09-ad30-0b9e-acd896cadb17@freebsd.org> <0c34355a-9f91-a966-7e46-aefcd2806fbd@netfence.it> <dc23b150-39c1-f875-2ee1-d38c919f498d@freebsd.org>
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On 2020-04-13 12:45, Niclas Zeising wrote: > I don't know exactly what makes xf86-video-ati-legacy crash, but if you > want to get it working, I think that the best course of action is to > move it back to 7.9, and then try to backport just as much as needed to > get it to compile with xserver 1.20, but still work on drm-legacy-kmod. Thanks for the hint. I'll eventually try this. I'd be happier if I got non-legacy drm to work on my card, though. > Graphics cards, even in the same series, can be quite different, > unfortunately. This is one of the reasons this work is so hard, because > even if one adapter in a family works, it does not mean all of them does. > Looking quickly at wikipedia [1], it looks like the HD4200 card uses the > 785G chipset, but HD4250 uses 880G (a generation later, as I understand > it), meaning they are probably quite different. Yes, this is super > confusing. Agree on the basic part. However, the same Wikipedia page says 785G/880G, but code name is RS880 for both... yes very confusing. bye & Thanks av.
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