Re: drm2 again
Niclas Zeising <[email protected]>
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On 11/1/18 3:55 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 09:12:32AM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote: >> On 10/31/18 11:32 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: >>> If I compare Xorg.0.log for drm-legacy-kmod to drm-stable-kmod, >>> the black screen of death seems to be related to this failure in legacy >>> >>> (II) RADEON(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 285 >>> failed to add FB for modeset >>> (WW) RADEON(0): Failed to set mode on CRTC 0 >>> (EE) RADEON(0): Failed to enable any CRTC >>> >>> The only other difference in the Xorg.log file are >>> >>> legacy contains >>> >>> (II) RADEON(0): mem size init: gart size :1fdef000 vram size: s:40000000 >>> visible:3f7d7000 >>> (II) RADEON(0): VRAM usage limit set to 928850K >>> >>> while stable has >>> >>> (II) RADEON(0): mem size init: gart size :3fdde000 vram size: s:40000000 >>> visible:3f4b4000 >>> (II) RADEON(0): VRAM usage limit set to 925959K >>> >>> Note, the system does not have an /etc/X11/Xorg.org file. >>> >> >> Hi! >> When using drm-legacy-kmod with drm-legacy-kmod you might need to >> install xf86-video-ati-legacy instead of xf86-video-ati, because of >> changes in how the kernel drivers work between versions. >> Regards > > I'll try xf86-video-ati-legacy later today. This suggests that > drm-legacy-kmod is not a direct move/replacement of the in-tree > drm2 into the ports infrastructure as I've always used > xf86-video-ati. > xf86-video-ati was recently updated, together with xf86-video-amdgpu, to provide better support for more modern graphics cards utilizing the new drm-kmod drivers. Unfortunately there were some regressions when using the old base driver or drm-legacy-kmod, which prompted us to create xf86-video-ati-legacy which is at the version xf86-video-ati was before the update. There's more information about this issue here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231884 Regards -- Niclas Zeising _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"