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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>
Cc: Johannes M Dieterich <jmd@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r482322 - in head/x11-drivers: . xf86-video-ati
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 10:24:13AM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 10/18/18 10:05 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 02:10:00AM +0000, Johannes M Dieterich wrote:
> >> New Revision: 482322
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/482322
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>    resurrect old port: xf86-video-ati@479538 as xf86-video-ati-legacy
> >>    
> >>    As there are some issues with the later xf86-video-ati revisions on
> >>    old DRMs such as drm-legacy-kmod, resurrect the old version of the
> >>    port as legacy.
> > 
> > Could you briefly describe those issues or point to a PR/email/wiki/etc.?
> 
> There are reports of X not working when using the updated xf86-video-ati
> DDX with drm-legacy-kmod or the DRM drivers in base.  See this PR for
> more details: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231884

Thanks Niclas, lots of good information in that PR.  I'll continue with my
test of ATI gfx cards and perhaps chime in.

Johannes, please include references to relevant PRs in the commit logs so
people won't have to ask. :-)

./danfe