From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Mon Apr 13 13:41:16 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E7B2BEB78 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4918sS1yLfz4cXZ for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 2FA232BEB77; Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:41:16 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: x11@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6822BEB76 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.netfence.it (net-2-44-121-52.cust.vodafonedsl.it [2.44.121.52]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mailserver.netfence.it", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4918sR3Hj5z4cXQ; Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:41:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.netfence.it (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id 03DDf93Y000695 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:41:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=netfence.it; s=202002; t=1586785272; bh=lH+hfgm2kb9n2oV1DRKVqotuulN/iZvviWuojgWhiwM=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=AGV53XGBfRB7NcXd/dW1NOoueZazTA8r6TvmCOV6SDV8EanYUBPbpCAx9rSUHIMT4 J0yeYHZDbl/KXbLvZN+Xg+dJzZg9CNGn+Xe2lDL80xWuh6tKNr/1dTWepLgiO/RwB/ sspOaI6zNMV3xszruFEeAzdH+8PWSSQxRfewuctA= X-Authentication-Warning: soth.netfence.it: Host alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18] claimed to be alamar.ventu Subject: Re: Users of x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-legacy To: Niclas Zeising , x11@FreeBSD.org References: <16c93a1a-cc60-b9a5-da48-889f48aa6005@netfence.it> <9352b468-9f09-ad30-0b9e-acd896cadb17@freebsd.org> <0c34355a-9f91-a966-7e46-aefcd2806fbd@netfence.it> From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: <1c29f581-5048-8c1f-195a-6b22f8487163@netfence.it> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:41:09 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4918sR3Hj5z4cXQ X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-6.00 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.997,0]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:41:16 -0000 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.