Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:29:25 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using drm-next in 11.2 Message-ID: <db1484c7-6306-ebec-1b49-9d0962ca9d39@ingresso.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <e6d37afc-c30e-5c18-eed0-40895eec1ad6@nomadlogic.org> References: <E1fzi7c-0000z2-32@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> <CAPS9%2BSvNT7fAsbM_Nrdde32ngdcZibW6%2B4pxCdg9JHgyktyaoA@mail.gmail.com> <4e71d1a8-ff74-c1c0-9369-826b2a054802@ingresso.co.uk> <b85e8a70-0962-871d-ce3e-9b9f14e4ca2c@ingresso.co.uk> <039a719c-8706-fb76-8866-662379430683@nomadlogic.org> <fbb436ac-dcaa-6570-cd19-d065138a6718@ingresso.co.uk> <e6d37afc-c30e-5c18-eed0-40895eec1ad6@nomadlogic.org>
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> I believe your best bet is to let Xorg probe your devices automatically > - i.e. don't have an xorg.conf in place when starting X. Yes, I dont have an xorg to conf - I was a bit unclear, I meant which drivers should I instal from the xorg-drivers package as I dont generally install all of them. > On my end this will result in the "modesetting" driver being used, which > is the suggested driver to use for intel and i believe amdgpu systems. > it provides full acceleration, and is under active development > upstream. it should also be part of the xorg-server pkg, so you don't > need to install any additional video drivers to use the modesetting driver. Thats actually relly helpdful, thanks! - I dont see a modesetting driver in /usr/ports/x11-drivers though, Where did you get this driver from ? -pete.
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