Re: drm2 again

Steve Kargl <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 04:09:46PM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Installing both drm-legacy-kmod and the new xf86-video-ati-legacy
appears to work.  It may be a good idea to add a pkg-message to
the drm-legacy-kmod port to point to the xf86-video-ati-legacy
port; otherwise, one may have no clue as to which port to install.

An entry in ports/UPDATING may also be appropriate.

Thanks for putting up with my harping on the demise of
sys/drm2 and the issues with -legacy.  Someday my 4 year
old hardware will be replaced, but it works and I have no
funds to do the replacement.

-- 
Steve
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