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On 02/17/15 18:45, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> An update to the DRM subsystem, not including the drivers, is ready for
> wider testing!
> 
> The patch against HEAD is here:
> https://people.freebsd.org/~dumbbell/graphics/drm-update-38.f.patch
> 
> I'm interested in success/failure reports for amd64, powerpc and
> powerpc64 users, for i915 and Radeon GPUs. I already know there is a
> build issue on i386, please wait for the next patch if you are in this case.
> 
> The changes brought by this patch are explained in a blog post:
> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/2015/02/18/testing-the-drm-update/
> 
> This is working well for some Radeon users for more than a year.
> However, it only started to work with i915 a month ago, when the i915
> refresh was committed.
> 
> Try your day-to-day applications, try suspend/resume, try all output
> connectors, try OpenGL stuff, try backlight controls, everything :)
> 
> Thank you!
> 

I tried the -h version of the patch with an Nvidia card. I didn't notice
any changes in behavior.

- Nikolai Lifanov