Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 09:00:35 +0200 From: Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>, "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: drm-i915kms + x11-intel eats out all of the ram and swap but not with x11-scfb Message-ID: <d753f6b7-565b-b5d1-d7d1-3c679c3f93c0@daemonic.se> In-Reply-To: <20200415093024.GB87161@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAFYkXj=HQ6NKx=_4fG5vyPokdL5FBpdiKccVChL-w7Q=Ty=w5w@mail.gmail.com> <19d0dbdc-f1ac-22f1-6934-076bb5733ab7@daemonic.se> <CAN6yY1unnOR4WS7G671jVBtGz=7xv75xAh7c9DvUFEAeknLrCw@mail.gmail.com> <20200415093024.GB87161@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2020-04-15 11:30, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:38:25PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> A day or two ago I saw a post to this list stating that modesetting >> was not interesting because it did not support 3-D acceleration. > > I think I was quoting this forum post* by yuripv@, but now I see it's > from 2018 so it might no longer be accurate. Sorry for confusion. > >> At least on my Sandy Bridge system running the latest available >> software for FreeBSD 12-STABLE, 3-D acceleration works just fine. > > I'm currently trying to get X11 back to normal on my AMD laptop, and > without `x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati' port installed X server does not > even start, spamming me with "radeon: The kernel rejected CS, see dmesg > for more information (-16)." Of course, there is nothing useful in > dmesg. :-( > > Is "modesetting driver" only a thing in the Intel world, or it should > work for AMD cards too? > To my knowledge, it should work on all cards with a modesetting driver (meaning intel, various versions of the AMD/ATI driver, and nVidia, at least). AMD hasn't been as aggressive in deprecating xf86-video-[ati,amdgpu] as intel has been with xf86-video-intel though. This might also be an issue with drm-legacy-kmod vs. drm-kmod. Regards -- Niclas
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