Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:23:47 +0100 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: No heads up for X.org config changes? Message-ID: <93A44203-1B97-4D37-922A-A61F701388D2@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello x11 ports folk, I updated X.org to the latest version at the weekend (actually, a week or two ago, but I didn’t restart it until then) and discovered that X would no longer start. The fix appeared to be quite simple in the end - I had to replace ‘radeon’ in my driver line for my device section in xorg.conf with ‘modesetting’. Apparently I probably also want Option "AccelMethod" “glamor” to enable 2D acceleration and need to add Load “glamoregl” to my modules section. None of this was documented. I looked in the UPDATING entries for xorg-drivers and xorg, on the freebsd-x11 mailing list archives and in the form and didn’t find anything relevant. Given that this update apparently broken any existing xorg.conf files that were configured to use DRI drivers, I imagine that other people were hit by it (though anyone using auto config was probably okay), so some public announcement (ideally in the UPDATING file, telling me I needed to update my config when I upgraded xorg-drivers) would have been nice. David
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